| ID | 4948 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Swarnandhra Colony |
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| Rough Address/Area | Yapral |
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| City/District | Secunderabad |
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| State | Andhra Pradesh |
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| Location Latitude | 17.51251793 |
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| Location Longitude | 78.54325867 |
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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 (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? | 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 few birds: When I saw sparrows, there were usually less than 5 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? | There is one pair here in the colony that used to visit my house in search of a nesting place. I had placed four wooden nests last year in apr may 2011. I noticed that there was stiff competition between the Scaly Breasted Munias and the sparrows. Two nests were colonised by the munias. One was used as roost by the young ones last winter. The other was used by munias to breed. However the eggs(five) were never hatched in this one. How ever adult munias used to visit this nest box. The other two nests did not have any takers.
This year in Feb Mar the two nests that were not occupied last year were hurriedly occupied by a pair of Indian Robins. hey placed nesting material in both the nests simultaneously but used one to hatch the eggs. The sparrows tried to occupy one of these nests. However the aggressive male Indian Robin attacked the male sparrow from rear and probably piercing the bird with its slender pointed beak. The sparrows were not found here again. How ever there is one nest in the colony in a toilet ventilator made of grass. The house was not occupied at that time.
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | |
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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? | |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | |
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