| ID | 6778 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Near Parbati Girls' School |
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| Rough Address/Area | |
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| City/District | Raiganj |
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| State | West Bengal |
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| Location Latitude | 25.62891197 |
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| Location Longitude | 88.12551880 |
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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? | Town |
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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? | More than 1 km across (eg, a large village or town) |
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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? | We live in the outskirts of a district town in the northern part of West Bengal. Sparrows live with us making nests in the ventilators, dirtying our walls and floors. We endure it, offer them food like rice, crusts of biscuits etc. They gleefully eat even share it simultaneously with birds much bigger than them - like dove etc. No bickering among them. They chirp and dance joyfully in the branches of our tinny orchard. There also they face no problem with other small and big birds.
And they breed though not so steadily - one or two siblings at one go. Parents feed them. It's a wonderful sight. There are 4 - 5 'Mobile' towers within 250 m. to 800 m.of our residence which effect production of coconut trees in the area including ours as is said by the people. But with ' God's grace ' the sparrows are still safe. Possibly, as they enjoy the other environs required for them. |
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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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