| ID | 6871 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | residential area in Ramakrishna mutt road |
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| Rough Address/Area | Someshwarpura, Halasuru |
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| City/District | Bangalore |
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| State | Karnataka |
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| Location Latitude | 12.97724819 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.62236786 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1975-1979 |
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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? | Old residential area |
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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 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? | When we were children we were staying in Ulsoor (now it is called Halasuru) our house used to be on first floor , used to face a large site with lot of of trees especially drum stick trees. During afternoon times when most of the place used to silent a flock of around 20 to 30 light colored and dark colored ones used to come sit on our veranda where my mother used to keep rice or wheat in the sunlight to dry. A cement take filled with water was there on the corner of this veranda. We used to wait till they all sit, eat and drink water. any small disturbance they use to fly off this was fun to watch |
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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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