| ID | 6107 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | My home, neighbourhood and fields @ Survey No 164 Behind Gurudwara, Lohegaon Pune 47 |
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| Rough Address/Area | Behind Gurudwara, Lohegaon |
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| City/District | Pune |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 18.58873177 |
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| Location Longitude | 73.92540741 |
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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? | Garden/Park |
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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? | 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 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 frequently |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | This column is most helpful to report what i want to! There is(was recently we took out home for renovation in Nov 11 and the pair had to leave)a pair nesting in our home for past 3-4 years. I have never bothered to observe the nesting cycle but remember coming home from office and the female flying in chirping loud for attention and some food. I normally would keep some rice grains on the fridge. At times if I forgot to talk or give the bird (female sparrow) some grains she would follow me to my room. Sit on the tubelight and make loud noise. Its only after putting grains (bread crumbs, cooked rice or chapati) that the bird would "mind" her business (of feeding her young ones)How she happened to be an attention seeker is another story. Once she sat on the vessel kept on burner for cooking. We were too afraid that she would burn herself so we give the grains the moment she demanded it. In hall, where i would normally sit and have dinner, she would hop around to have some more food. She would also help us by eating all insects caught in the cob webs, esp near tubelight. Though both parents took equal part in feeding the young ones, the male sparrow was more of an outside man, getting insects (larva) from the fields and the female keeping herself to cooked food/insects from inside our home. They would feed babies until we would switch off the lights (around 12 am or so) Morning the routine began with the first light of day break. |
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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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