| ID | 164 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | a residential place in Savarkar Nagar (Old name - Karvalo Nagar)r |
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| Rough Address/Area | Karvalo Nagar, Thane West |
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| City/District | Thane |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 19.20498848 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.95188141 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1995-1999 |
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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? | 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? | 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 fair number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 5 and 30 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? | As our was a typical Chawl kind of Housing, the roof of the houses used to have tiles made up of Mud (Kawala) places over wooden frames. Such a roofing used to leave a lot of place of birds to nest in between. There used to at least a single nest at all times in the house. A well in the vicinity used to provide water to these birds. As people used clean Rice, Wheat and other food grains at home, sparrows used to feast on the broken grains thrown away. These days slowly that practice is giving way to clean packed grains. Even today sparrows are seen daily there but a change in house structures has left no place for these poor creatures to make nest. |
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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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