| ID | 5978 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Guru Ram Dass Nagar,Putlighar |
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| Rough Address/Area | Putli Ghar |
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| City/District | Amritsar |
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| State | Punjab |
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| Location Latitude | 31.63213348 |
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| Location Longitude | 74.84925079 |
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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 (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? | 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? | Rarely: I saw sparrows only a few times in many months or a year |
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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? | Sparrows observed but no nests seen |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | Before the time peroid i have specified here above that is 2010-2012, i could see large number of sparrows,even my mother use to put food and water for them at the roof of our terrace and a large number of sparrows could be observed. but now i hardly find any and since last two years the number of sparrows has been decreased.i remember when i was in my 5,6 th standard i use to observe sparrows whole day long thaty how they make their nest collecting sort of grass fibres, turn by turn the used to go and i was strictly warned by my grandmother that not to touch their nest or some baby sparrow otherwise the other group of sparrows will kill that baby sparrow because they can sense the smell of human touch. but now their number has reduced drastically past two years. |
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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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