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Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4548 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
yeah same pichukalu but these days you dont see many...i remember seeing them not only in villages but also in towns but nowadays they are mostly gone. | ||
Stig Junior Artist Username: Stig Post Number: 578 Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 99.39.234.111 Rating: N/A |
House sparrows ante manam regular gaa choose pichukalu ee kada ?? ivi kanapadaka povadam enti ?? sounds pretty eerie Salim ali Ornithology center lantollu veeti data maintain chestaru ga ... !! ------- Only seven people have looked The Stig straight in the eyes. They are all dead now !! | ||
Guttonkay Side Hero Username: Guttonkay Post Number: 2870 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 148.87.67.132 Rating: |
We used to have so many sparrows when we were little. They are not around in India anymore? That's a shame. ikkada maa deck meeda roju oka padi vuntayi. Now that spring is here I need to go buy bird feed. | ||
Iamim Side Hero Username: Iamim Post Number: 3810 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 119.235.54.170 Rating: N/A |
A wild goose chase for House Sparrow G.V. Ramana Rao March 20 is observed as âWorld House Sparrow Day' There are several sparrows in Kolleru villages, says former forest official VIJAYAWADA: Suddenly everyone is searching for these birds considered a menace by many just a decade ago. They disturbed the tranquillity of the mornings, chirping and fluttering around. Disappearing during the rest of the day, they returned again in the evening to create a racket. Even if they were seen during the day, they came only to have a pecking contest with their images in the bathroom mirror. Over the years they have disappeared, leaving an eerie silence behind. Paediatrician and bird lover P. Srinivasa Rao has been to every nook and corner of the city on a âwild goose chase for the House Sparrow' in the past 10 days. âI get patients from different parts of the city. A patient's mother said she saw sparrows near her house in One Town, but when I went there to check there was none,â he said. Another person told him that he saw sparrows near the iron market on the Tunnel/Bypass Road, but nothing came out of that hunt either. âThey were regular visitors to Budameru flood bank near Ayodhyanagar, but I have not seen any in the recent past,â said a lensman, who is fond of photographing birds. His search for a House Sparrow in the city and even in Guntur in the past few days has been in vain. The declaration of March 20 as the first World House Sparrow Day (WHSP) has everybody searching for these birds that were once some much part of our daily life. Honorary wildlife warden and ornithologist K. Mruthyunjaya Rao said he was able to get a few sparrows to establish a nest in a shoe box in a house in Kakinada. Putting food grain on the compound wall, he ensured the birds visited his home regularly. Then he put the grains in his balcony. There he hung a shoe box with straw and shreds of clothes in the balcony. The sparrows after a while established a nest in the shoe box, he said. Mr. Rao said ceiling fan was one of the reasons for the decline of sparrows in cities. Many of them got killed by these juggernauts. Former Assistant Conservator of Forest P. Gracious said there were several sparrows in the villages associated with Kolleru Lake. | ||
Iamim Side Hero Username: Iamim Post Number: 3807 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 119.235.54.170 Rating: N/A |
March 20 declared World House Sparrow Day Nivedita Ganguly VISAKHAPATNAM: The cheerful, gregarious house sparrows, once commonly seen flitting around the neighbourhood, are in real trouble and are vanishing from the centre of many cities and rural areas. Their recent decline has put them on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List category. According to the latest sparrow census put together by various environmental organisations, there has been an 80 per cent decline in their numbers during the past decade. The disappearance of sparrows in India has been widely reported, but responses have been quite muted so far. To draw the attention of government agencies and the scientific community for more conservation measures and research on common bird species and urban biodiversity, March 20 will be celebrated and marked as World House Sparrow Day. The marking of the day is an international initiative by the Nature Forever Society, in collaboration with the Bombay Natural History Society, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (U.S.), Eco-Sys Action Foundation (France), Avon Wildlife Trust (U.K.) and numerous other national and international organisations. A recent study conducted by the Andhra University highlighted that the population of house sparrows fell by over 60 per cent even in rural areas of the southern coast. âDue to various ecological disturbances, the population of this friendly bird has witnessed a freefall. Primary reasons behind this are non-availability of food (due to changing lifestyles), lack of nesting places in urban areas and over-usage of pesticides in agricultural zones that has affected the total insect population leading to a decline in population of many familiar bird species, including house sparrows, that feed on insects. Mobile phone towers and microwave pollution are silent killers of the house sparrows,â P. Pramod, Nature Education Officer, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, said. The sparrows used to build their nests below tiled roofs of houses. With contemporary architecture making a clean sweep in cities, tiled roofs have become a thing of the past, and sparrows have lost their prospective nesting spots. |
