View Record #680



ID680
Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting aboutNear PSR rock
Rough Address/Area
City/DistrictNew Delhi
StateDelhi
Location Latitude28.54102898
Location Longitude77.17065430
Q3. What time period are you reporting about?2010-2012
Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about?City (outskirts)
Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above?Campus
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)
Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above?I lived there
Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above?Occasionally: I saw sparrows several times a month
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
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
Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period?I usually saw a score of them often from the ring road, in the forested area that surround the PSR rock of JNU. Now I have not seen them for I think last one year. Since I am in Delhi for the last seven years that was the only place where I saw them, I do not know whether they are still there or not! I am afraid that recently many mobile towers have come up in the JNU campus. Now we all get full conectivity in our cellphones while earlier we hardly used to get signals. Is this the reason?
Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality?
Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words.
Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes?
Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown?
Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality?
Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they?
Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality?