View Record #9826
| ID | 9826 |
|---|---|
| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Basera Vihar |
| Rough Address/Area | Kalyanpur (West) |
| City/District | Lucknow |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Location Latitude | 26.90853691 |
| Location Longitude | 80.97813416 |
| 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? | New residential development |
| 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) |
| 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? | Always: I saw sparrows every day |
| 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? | Nests seen occasionally |
| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | When I shifted to my newly purchased building at Basera Vihar, Kalyanpur, Lucknow, which was constructed some ten years back and was lying abandoned except that some caretakers lived there, I found a large number of sparrows around. There were many nests also in my house. Sadly, during repairs, plastering and other construction work some birds might have lost their nests. Birds kept visiting the house as their own native homng place and fighting for nestings. They will fight their images on window panes for hours together. Nearby my home, in lantana bushes, where there are some acacia trees, there still abound large flocks of sparrows. They breed there in large numbers. At one time I even wanted to use that plot as breeding ground and for conservation of Sparrows. For a small writeup on sparrowday see my bloglink below: http://biodiversitynet.blogspot.in/2012/03/chirp-for-sparrow-tweet-for-sparrow.html Zaka Imam |
| 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? |
