View Record #5126



ID5126
Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting aboutInfosys, ph-2, FC-2, a bunch of bamboo plantation
Rough Address/Areainfosys ph-2 campus, near food court-2
City/DistrictHinjewadi
StateMaharashtra
Location Latitude18.59605408
Location Longitude73.71013641
Q3. What time period are you reporting about?2010-2012
Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about?Other
Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above?Campus
Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows?Less than 100 metres across (eg, a few houses or shops)
Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above?I worked/studied there
Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above?Always: I saw sparrows every day
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
Q10. If House Sparrows are/were present in this time period and locality/area, did you observe active nests?Sparrows observed but no nests seen
Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period?There is this cluster of bamboo plantation near Infy ph-2, FC-2 artificially created as part of the landscaping. Every evening between 6pm-7pm the sparrows gather in this bamboo cluster, I guess, in numbers of hundreds from the kind of noise they make. It can be heard from a distance. The bamboo cluster is so dense, one cannot see if tehre are any nests in there or how many sparrows exactly are there. However from the noise they make it must run in hundreds.
Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality?
Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words.
Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes?
Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown?
Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality?
Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they?
Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality?