| ID | 6633 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | 871, Sector 8, RK Puram, New Delhi 110 022 |
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| Rough Address/Area | Sector 8 R K Puram, RamaKrishna Puram |
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| City/District | New Delhi |
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| State | Delhi |
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| Location Latitude | 28.57093048 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.16645813 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1960-1964 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | Village |
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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? | 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? | 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? | We lived at a house in Agraharam Street, Periyakuppam, a village near Tiruvallur Railway Station 42 K.M. from Chennai Central Railway Station on the way to Arakkonam Jn.Southern Railway. There was a sparrow nest inside our house where generations of sparrows lived/multiplied. I enjoyed this from 1st to 12th standard. Except for providing space for nest we never gave anything to them. They had plenty of food outside and even from some leftovers at our house. We enjoyed their nesting, feeding baby birds, most of the time there will be 2-3 offspring. They were plenty around the play ground where we used to grow up for 17-18 years playing. There used to be 30 to 50 sparrows flying together and sitting in 2 to 3 rows on electric wires between street light poles. Wonderful sight. This was over the period from 1963 to 1976.
Thereafter, I moved to Thayamkave, Choondal Village in Thrissur District, Kerala where too I enjoyed their chirping. There was no nest provided to sparrows in our house. Lots of trees are there in our village and I never seen its nest. I used to see between 10 to 20 sparrows in Kerala. I never saw the gathering as I saw during my childhood in Tamilnadu. This was for the period from 1977 to 2001 in Kerala.
Thereafter, I moved to Delhi and lived in Kabul Line, Delhi Cantt, New Delhi-110011. I was in a flat and there were plenty of trees all around and it was nice to see the sparrows in numbers similar to the one I saw in my childhood in Tamilnadu , and often more than 150 at sunset time gathering in a tree and many more sitting in electric wires as explained earlier. Lots of noice, wonderful sight. I saw nesting in the flats, i.e. at places behind sewer pipelines fitted outside flats.
Then I moved to a flat behind Chintamani Supermarket, Vepery, behind Veterinary College, Chennai. This site do not allow me to write more. Please allow file attachment facility so that bigger stories can be sent. even logging in is difficult. |
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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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