| ID | 9736 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | nayabazar,balasore |
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| Rough Address/Area | nayabazar,balasore |
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| City/District | Baleshwar |
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| State | Odisha |
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| Location Latitude | 21.49416733 |
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| Location Longitude | 86.93166351 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2000-2004 |
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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? | Market |
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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? | 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 occasionally |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | During that time i was in 5th grade. I was living near the nayabazar market.It was mainly a vegetable market but it had a part which was used for sailing food grains(like pulses,rice etc..)and it was like ali baba's khajana to the little sparrows.There were nearly 60 to 70 of those cute little creatures(sparrows) waiting for the shopkeeper to open the shop.The shopkeepers too anticipated about there action so each of them would take a handful of grains and place it on stone very familiar to the sparrows.Every morning would start with there sweet creeping sounds bringing a freshness to the whole area.The shopkeepers were drive by the belief that providing the sparrows with grains would enhance there luck and would bring prosperity to them.Some of the sparrows had there nest in the centre of the market and some came from near by trees.There was a mutual understanding between the shopkeepers and the sparrows which resulted in giving protections to the little birds which increased there growth.It was nice to see such understanding between man and birds.Everyday my way through to school i counted there numbers for i believed that if the no. was odd then its going to be a bad day and if even then the opposite.And it was obvious that i lose my count every time for they were a lot to count while cycling! |
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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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