| ID | 4873 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | ambasamudram |
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| Rough Address/Area | Nagaladi Street |
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| City/District | Ambasamudram |
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
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| Location Latitude | 8.70907307 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.45218658 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2000-2004 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | Town |
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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? | Often: I saw sparrows several times a week |
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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 very large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually more than 100 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? | Usually during my school days it had their nest in our house and its new born sounds sweet and falls down from the nest in ceiling... We used to place it again in the nest. They didnt disturb our live... But now the nest were not there and i spot them in the evening rarely while they visits our house. Also we too spot its presence very rare in our town, my friends too were questioning the reasons of their absence, and felt very bad about this.... We really miss them a lot.... |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | Grain shops, Vegetable shops, Other food shops, Cattle sheds, Open-air eateries |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | By those days some cattle sheds, small houses with place for their nesting is lot, but due to modernization some left the cattle sheds & open places with houses and also the garden spaces in around every houses become almost zero... |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | Food |
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| Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown? | Rice, plantain... |
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| Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality? | Extensive |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | Wall cavity, In electrical fixture |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | 2005-2009 |
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