| ID | 5651 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | pondicherry residential colony |
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| Rough Address/Area | Shanthi Nagar, Ilango Nagar |
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| City/District | Puducherry |
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| State | Puducherry |
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| Location Latitude | 11.93539429 |
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| Location Longitude | 79.81984711 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1985-1989 |
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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? | Agricultural fields |
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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 frequently |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | had many families of nesting sparrows in my room. used to wake up early to switch off the fan so that the birds could fly without getting hurt.
this was an old type of window, so we have had sparrows nesting on the ventilator of the windows.
once we even had them nesting on the cup of our fan. the book shelf used to be open, the topmost shelf was again a popular nesting spot.
today my parents tell me that they hardly see sparrows there. they live in the same house. the neighbourbood has changed though, what used to be be a lot of open cultivated rice land is today completely filled with homes.
Pondicherry still does not have many flats, we still have open space around the house, but see sparrows occasionaly today. |
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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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