| ID | 980 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Sanjay Nagar, Erode near Rani Street i.e East-West Socrates Street |
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| Rough Address/Area | Sampath Nagar |
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| City/District | Erode |
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
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| Location Latitude | 11.33743382 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.70721436 |
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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? | City (outskirts) |
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| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | New residential development |
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| Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows? | Less than 100 metres across (eg, a few houses or shops) |
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| Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above? | Other, I live here |
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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? | Sparrows are such gorgeous friends... I love and adore them and miss them very much. As a boy who grew up in a different part of this same town Erode,Thamizh Nadu (up to the age of 10 perhaps), I used to see them flock together in numbers and they were a delight to watch. They would be soon every day and always busy and cute. I had the privilege of watching them searching and gorging themselves on grain spill from gunny bags on Railway platforms (Erode Junction). I had also enjoyed watching them build nests in my tiled home then. With them, I would and could never be lonely ! And without them now, I feel so lonely and lost !
Post Script : I have answered the questionnaire for the brief but present period of 2010 - 2012 by which time I have shifted to Socrates Street (east-west street connecting Rani Street with Raja Street, Sanjay Nagar)and wish to add that I had seen more sparrows in 2010 and see less of them now in 2012 ... After a span of several months of inability to find them by which time I lost all hopes of them seeing them again in my vicinity, it was only a few days back, to my pleasant surprise and sheer delight, I saw 3 of 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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