| ID | 4955 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Railway Quarters next to Borivali Station (East) |
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| Rough Address/Area | Chinchpada, Borivali East |
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| City/District | Mumbai |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 19.22802734 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.85736084 |
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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 (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 large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 30 and 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? | Sparrows would begin chirping crazily around 4:00-4:30 am, and the 100-odd birds sounded like thousands of birds.Moreover, the always built nests in the window-sills of our Railway Quarter flat. Nests were even built in the ceiling fan cap-holder.
Stopped seeing sparrows gradually after 1995 or thereabouts. Shifted from Mumbai to Delhi in end-1997 and never saw sparrows in Delhi, until a couple of years ago when I visited the Big Bazaar outlet. My personal feeling is sparrows' disappearance coincides with the rise of mobile telephony and telecom towers; these are the main culprits, although there may be other secondary reasons too. Sad! |
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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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