IF YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING THE ONCE -FAMILIAR CHIRPING OF SPARROWS AROUND YOUR HOUSE,
Here's your chance to contribute to finding out why this common bird seem to have disappeared from cities across you near your locality. A survey called citizen sparrow was launched inviting responses from people on questions such as when they last sighted the bird and details about the area they live in.
" it is an elementary step to gather information. Encouraging people to report their experience, be it a drastic drop in sparrow count or a sudden spurt. Thus you see these inputs give valuable leads to compile pan-india data"
The DISAPPEARANCE Of the house sparrow , so widespread till recently that the Chinese Communist Party declared it a pest in 1958 and asked people to exterminate it, remains a great modern mystery world wide. ( how can a 4-6 inches small bird be pest for anything? ) UNBELIEVABLE ?
In the UK , sparrows are estimated to have declined from over 12 million to 6 million , since the mid 70s
This is the very huge
"same conditions"
In india too.
Many country too
" The survey would be give us the first baseline data about distribution of sparrows in the country . This would from the basic for further research "
The objective of involving ordinary citizen rather than experts comes with a purpose. " Almost everyone knows about sparrows. It is an attempt to reach out to people. asking them to share their stories and their understanding of these birds"
The sparrow is an indicator of a trend . A number of other birds have also declined sharply in the past few months , years , decades .
SAVE BIRDS
SAVE NATURE
SAVE EARTH
Your simple few right step towards the nature can bring lots of good change