| ID | 6220 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | thane city |
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| Rough Address/Area | Samata Nagar, Thane West |
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| City/District | Thane |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 19.20268059 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.96524811 |
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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? | New residential development |
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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? | Often: I saw sparrows several times a week |
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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? | Tarangan Complex is a locality with high rise buildings in which almost 350 families of higher middle class reside(Map 1). In front of these buildings a big open nallah flows and flyover is built on the east side of this complex carrying heavy traffic day and night. Korum mall has come up on the north side. All the buildings have a garden and tall trees line the side of the nallah.
The drainage and water pipes are covered by concrete walls and frontage have a iron grills of 3.5 cm square openings. These openings give free access to the sparrows and avoid menace of pigeons and other animals. In the beginning crows were not seen in this locality even though cawing of crows could be heard only in the early morning.
The garden receives cow dung manure and has mainly Ficus hedge which continues into bamboo hedge on the road side of this complex. At the end, the bamboo hedge turns into thicket (5 feet breadth, 13 feet in length and 11 feet height) which becomes short and sparse as it continues. The thicket is the roosting site of the sparrows in the morning. In the evening, sparrows gather in the ficus and sparse bamboos chirping continuously and then retire to roost in the bamboo thicket.
The sparrows chirp for almost 45 minutes before sun rise and then leave their roosting place invariably within 15 minutes in groups of 10 to 15 just before the sunrise. The number of sparrows was counted from the two ends of the thicket (site 1 and 2 respectively) for half an hour. Some of them rest for a few seconds on a nearby tree probably to warm up and then fly. A few of them return back. The returned sparrows are subtracted from the total number of sparrows to give a correct picture. (Table 1).
TABLE 1 - Total number of sparrow continued on pg 3 |
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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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