| ID | 4517 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Parleshwar Society |
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| Rough Address/Area | Vile Parle, East |
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| City/District | Mumbai |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 19.10607147 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.84738159 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1965-1969 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | City (outskirts) |
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| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | Old residential area |
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| Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows? | 500 m to 1 km across (eg, a residential colony, commercial area or small village) |
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| Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above? | I lived there |
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| Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above? | Always: I saw sparrows every day |
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| Q9. When you did see House Sparrows in this time period and locality/area, how many did you typically see? | A fair number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 5 and 30 birds |
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| Q10. If House Sparrows are/were present in this time period and locality/area, did you observe active nests? | Nests seen frequently |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | They were an integral part of my childhood in Mumbai. They would invariably nest on our living room tube light, shedding bits of dried grasses on the ground below and occasionally fly into the ceiling fan when it was on, much to our distress. Closing the windows was not much of an option. They’d simply wait till we opened them to let in some breeze. The loft above the kitchen was another favoured nesting site. All my Maharashtrian neighbours’s kids grew up on Kau-Chiu (Crow-Sparrow) stories while being fed by doting mothers and grandmothers. So ubiquitous, somehow we never thought of sparrows as wild birds. |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | Other food shops, Non-food shops, Cattle sheds, Huts, Apartment complexes |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | Our Society had 11 buildings, six and five on either side of road, central playground, garden space behind. Beyond gardens were huts where people raised chickens, buffaloes, Stray cats, dogs were common, unlike occasional pigs or goats. |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | Neither |
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| Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown? | |
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| Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality? | Some |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | In electrical fixture, Other (please specify), Kitchen Loft, Tubelights |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | |
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