| ID | 4776 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Old Washermenpet, Chennai 21, Tamil Nadu |
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| Rough Address/Area | N N Garden, Old Washermenpet |
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| City/District | Chennai |
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
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| Location Latitude | 13.14254856 |
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| Location Longitude | 79.90904999 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2010-2012 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | City (main) |
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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? | 100-500 metres across (eg, a market, bus-stand or park) |
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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 occasionally |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | We used to feed food like cereals and food grains with four bucket of waters on the top of third floor building and also window silt. It attracts lot of sparrow and pigeons usually come in the morning as well as in the evening and take the food regularly. Interestingly Sparrows wake up us early in the monring 5.30 a.m. every day with its chirping. It is nice to hear the sound on our building when we wake up. We would like put some sparrow nests at our residential building. May I know details of making the sparrow nests. |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | Vegetable shops, Other food shops, Multi-storey bungalows |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | It is basically commercial area with lots of textile marketting shops in M C road and gunny bag shops with residential buildings thereon. Adjacent to our area vegetable and fish markets and shops are also surrounded. |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | Nestbox |
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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? | None |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | Artificial nest box |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | Before 1995 |
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