There are how many house sparrows in your nearest street???.. you may give me an approximate number.. in the future you will give me the exact count "0". but in thge past it was countless.. do you remember... small birds on the electric lines.. ?..
The cheerful house sparrows, once commonly seen flitting around the neighbourhood, 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
House sparrows are used to build their nest bellow roofs of tiled houses, and pockets in the walls etc.. now due to urbanization and change in style of architecture the are not getting places for nesting..
They are on the way to follow cheetah, and passenger pigeon.. let us save them..
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I just seen a little family of house sparrows on my fence searched what they were on google... Edmonton north!!!!
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