tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.comments2021-12-19T14:47:21.256+05:30Birds of IndiaSumit Senhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195592763421295447noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-88273328586569814762021-12-19T14:47:21.256+05:302021-12-19T14:47:21.256+05:30No, they are not endangered. Perhaps, your localit...No, they are not endangered. Perhaps, your locality is street garbage free.Sumit Senhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18195592763421295447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-32791544079431526992021-12-18T23:37:23.969+05:302021-12-18T23:37:23.969+05:30Nice Article , From last many years I observed tha...Nice Article , From last many years I observed that the crow disappeared from our daily life , so I am little worried about that , are they also in category of Endangered Birds ? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15242695411995632248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-53563010936804987202019-08-19T14:45:19.669+05:302019-08-19T14:45:19.669+05:30Thank you for your post, I look for such article a...Thank you for your post, I look for such article along time, today i find it finally. this post give me lots of advise it is very useful for me. <a href="https://www.panicharoenporn.com" rel="nofollow">ผ้าม่านโครงการ</a>Charlesdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14773516967845965767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-23183146141697936872019-03-20T13:06:59.532+05:302019-03-20T13:06:59.532+05:30I agree. I have seen sparrows in my travels, notab...I agree. I have seen sparrows in my travels, notably around Agra's monuments, perhaps because of the vast gardens around each. Here - on the edge of Bangalore - there's such a varied bird life that sparrows are perhaps in a minority, but even here they perch on - guess what - mobile towers! So I'm not so sure of the much touted reason for their decline, though with reducing habitat, I guess all bird life may be in downspin. Bamboosonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07262059959870412584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-45763058604336915492014-08-13T13:32:34.744+05:302014-08-13T13:32:34.744+05:30No binoculars recommendations?No binoculars recommendations?priyankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617909514861060721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-72533450540542095152013-07-01T14:12:39.464+05:302013-07-01T14:12:39.464+05:30how old are indian crowhow old are indian crowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-70600660714644770692013-01-16T23:00:02.193+05:302013-01-16T23:00:02.193+05:30Team, what country does not have crowTeam, what country does not have crowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-59672100339983563212011-11-26T13:19:39.542+05:302011-11-26T13:19:39.542+05:30Dear Sumit,
I read your well-researched and thoug...Dear Sumit,<br /><br />I read your well-researched and thought provoking article with a great deal of interest. I can only speak from my personal observation (or lack of it), and say that during the last 5 years I have lived in Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Coorg, and Munnar; and I have not seen a single sparrow in any of these places. I will admit that I have not actively sought them out, and they no doubt exist somewhere in the neighbourhood. If pesticides, and radiation from mobile towers, etc., have taken their toll - then why only on the hapless sparrows? Are sparrows particularly prone? There is seemingly no dearth of other species of birds to be seen in urban areas, even exotic ones sometimes. Sparrows, Crows, and Pigeons were the birds that were most commonly seen all over India, in my childhood. <br /><br />Warm regards,<br /><br />Jasbir S. Randhawa<br />Chandigarh<br />jasbir.randhawa@gmail.comJasbir S. Randhawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160008875927343788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-20927162927298593482011-11-23T07:50:13.845+05:302011-11-23T07:50:13.845+05:30Kolkata and Mumbai has indeed many sparrows and th...Kolkata and Mumbai has indeed many sparrows and that simply don't reflect the numbers else where.I have seen them in CST station and on the roads of Kolkata...What about other places.In my place Bhubaneswar out of 40 questioned surveys yield that only two places have sparrows in contrary to the earlier days abundance.Near by radius of 30 kms village area people agreed that there is very less numbers or even no sparrows at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-13162737562195835252011-09-18T23:40:52.147+05:302011-09-18T23:40:52.147+05:30lack of worm/insect is not the major cause as I fo...lack of worm/insect is not the major cause as I found them to enter in my home and eat the remainings of our food from dinning table and kitchen . They even eat fruits like bananna and guava. They can eat seeds also.In some places they are plenty, but they needs undisturbed groves to live.somdattanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-49907435244901144242011-08-31T07:15:08.007+05:302011-08-31T07:15:08.007+05:30Sumit da, excellent writing. I am always scared of...Sumit da, excellent writing. I am always scared of a day, when there will be "No crow" like todays "No Vulture". Even the black Kite is contributing a significant service in the urban and semi urban areas in this matter. Your article is very much a timely one, and we must keep it in mind, that "individually what we are wasting actually, in effect it is reduced to almost 50% just because of a Crow". Dr Silanjan Bhattacharya is guiding various studies on Crow, in an around Kolkata. I have forwarded this article to him also. Thanks and regards. ArjanArjan Basu Royhttp://www.naturemates.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-63601221514249902892011-08-27T14:36:52.955+05:302011-08-27T14:36:52.955+05:30Super stuff, sirji! TFS.
P.S. FYI, http://www.sac...Super stuff, sirji! TFS.<br /><br />P.S. FYI, http://www.sacon.in/download/Bro_Ornithology_Brow.pdfDhaval Momayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02468155198720316948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-13925729920067063172011-08-27T06:54:40.766+05:302011-08-27T06:54:40.766+05:30Very well written. This is not a scholarly article...Very well written. This is not a scholarly article based on accepted statistical measurement or scientific data. But the langue that you used to express it is so very simple , that my 12 year old who is an ardent fan of the Crow enjoyed reading it .prasannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443144816063557580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-30798816406515053662011-08-26T23:27:10.176+05:302011-08-26T23:27:10.176+05:30interesting and different read.interesting and different read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-21886328343588435122011-08-25T20:09:13.911+05:302011-08-25T20:09:13.911+05:30There's nothing to beat Mark Twain's take ...There's nothing to beat Mark Twain's take on the Indian Crow: http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/mark_twain/following_the_equator/37/coppersmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15217222692187375323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-60929539951041540842011-08-25T17:16:14.207+05:302011-08-25T17:16:14.207+05:30i am going to be using this in my classroom...it w...i am going to be using this in my classroom...it was a very interesting read :)Poonam Kuranihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17708193911200102887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-66616286421508973922011-08-24T21:03:20.785+05:302011-08-24T21:03:20.785+05:30Probably it is also well known to birders that Dou...Probably it is also well known to birders that Douglas Dewar had dedicated a book on Indian Crows See http://www.archive.org/details/indiancrowhisboo00dewa<br />as early as 1905. A good read.<br /><br />SS Mahesh<br />New DelhiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-66874638714767516532011-08-18T13:07:28.125+05:302011-08-18T13:07:28.125+05:30Nice write up and thankyou for posting the link on...Nice write up and thankyou for posting the link on delhibird.<br /><br />House sparrows are no longer seen in and around houses with man. Though I would like to share a couple of personal records of sighting large flocks of this declining species. I regularly visit a graveyard near the Fort area of the Aligarh Muslim University where a small tea shop has been set up by the roadside. Some khejri (Acacia leucophloea) trees stand between the graveyard and the tea shop and a flock of atleast 200 house sparrows whirr around sometimes perching on the canopy of the trees and landing on the littered ground on others. Similar behaviour was observed once on my way back from the Gurusikaran Forest on the outskirts of Aligarh Distt. This time it was the bushes by a paddy field on a kucha road in the winters. <br /><br />Lets us hope deliberations like these from Gopi Sundar and Sumit Sen take us ahead in chalking out a conservation strategy for the poor souls in the sparrows whose numbers have plummetted to our shock and chagrin.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002435106661244360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-82646513765989322112011-08-18T10:59:08.938+05:302011-08-18T10:59:08.938+05:30This is really a wonderful narrative. I agree with...This is really a wonderful narrative. I agree with authors observations. There is need of long term monitoring of the sparrow population to conclude on decline or increase in the population.Girish Jatharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09108905415988516955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-64841713370157318412011-08-16T11:12:27.537+05:302011-08-16T11:12:27.537+05:30It's rather interesting to observe huge flocks...It's rather interesting to observe huge flocks of House Sparrows around Haryana villages. May be they are thriving in villages, gradually shifting from urban landscape of high rises with neat and clean tiled houses. I believe sparrows are real survivors. I see them nesting under air conditioners, in a little Pomegranate tree or a ficus tree in open areas of my colony.<br />One interesting place I saw thousands of them was at Country Inn in Bhimtal this year. They have labelled a particular Ficus tree as sparrow tree specially due to the alarming number of sparrows it attracts each evening.<br />On the other hand, there's an open park in Gurgaon called Leisure Valley where untill 2005, I used to see sparrows roosting in thousands on Ficus lining the pathways. However, this year there are thousands of Mynas and very few flocks of sparrows left. May be Mynas colonising Sparrow habitats is another reason for their ousting.<br />In any case, it definitely merits more than these casual observations. Thanks for the article which set many a mind thinking.FreeSpirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078567139919623425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-53758584184597471212011-08-16T09:24:08.159+05:302011-08-16T09:24:08.159+05:30Thanks you very much, an excellent reading this wa...Thanks you very much, an excellent reading this was, very engaging though quite insightful.<br />Based on the 'crudest' manner of observation, I may say that in my area of the city (Northern Kolkata), the Sparrows are doing fine. There are plenty of them on the small Neem tree in front of my house and I must mention that there is a Mobile Tower in vicinity.<br />I completely agree with you that scientific study must be supported by hard scientific data, and let the initiative of the World Sparrow Day guide the future works in that direction rather than speculation.<br /><br />Thanks again...S Roy Choudhurynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626119136681230957.post-81023427458383074112011-08-15T11:32:07.693+05:302011-08-15T11:32:07.693+05:30As always an engaging writeup. All said, my casual...As always an engaging writeup. All said, my casual observations in my neigborhood seem to indicate House Sparrows are doing ok... not declining as much as those who keep flower posts in their apartment balconies would wish.<br /><br />On the contrary, in Jaipur... there seems to be a decline.... again 'seems' is opertatve.<br /><br />ArijitArijithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17939480774827328643noreply@blogger.com