State Birds Of Our Nation

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HOUSE SPARROW– DECLINING POPULATION

Universally familiar in appearance, the widespread and once abundant house sparrow has become a mystery bird and is becoming increasingly rare all over the world.

They are vanishing from many big cities, but are still not uncommon in small towns and villages. India has seen a massive decline of sparrows in recent years

March 20 was declared the World House Sparrow Day.

Food

The house sparrow is an intelligent bird that has proven to be adaptable to most situation, i.e. nest sites, food and shelter, so it has become the most abundant songbird in the world.

Sparrows are very social birds and tend to flock together through most of the year. A flock’s range covers 1.5-2 miles, but it will cover a larger territory if necessary when searching for food. The sparrow’s main diet consists of grain seeds, especially waste grain and live stock feed. If grain is not available, its diet is very broad and adaptable. It also eats weeds and insects, especially during the breeding season. The parasitic nature of the house sparrow is quite evident as they are avid seekers of garbage tossed out by humans. In spring, flowers (especially those with yellow colours) are often eaten crocuses, primroses and aconites seem to attract the house sparrow most. The birds also hunt butterflies.

Housing

House sparrows are generally attracted to buildings for roosting, nesting, and cover. They look for any man-made nook or cranny to build their nests. Other nesting sites are clothes line poles with the end caps open, lofts, kitchen garden etc. The sparrow makes its home in areas closely associated with human habitation.

Causes of Decline

There are various causes for dramatic decrease in their population, one of the more surprising being the introduction of unleaded petrol, the combustion of which produces compounds such as methyl nitrite, a compound which is highly toxic for small insects, which forms a major part of a young sparrow’s diet. Other being areas of free growing weeds, or reduction in number of badly maintained buildings, which are important nesting opportunities for sparrows. Ornithologists and wildlife experts speculate that the population crash could also be linked to a variety of factors like the lack of nesting sites in modern concrete buildings, disappearing kitchen gardens, increased use of pesticides in farmlands and the non- availability of food sources.

Help Bird

Sparrows are in trouble all over the country, and they need our help! We should do everything we can to make sure they get the right food and the proper nesting places.

1. Ban the Catapult Campaign
We all love Mother Nature and its bountiful gift of birds, animals and plants, which in the recent past has come under threat from all quarters. We should try to convince people to lobby for a ban on the use of catapults.
2. Feed the birds

Ideally, food should be provided all year round for birds, but in winter and summer, birds need us more as their natural food and water sources decrease.

During the rainy season, keep the feeders in places where they will not come in contact with water. Installing feeders near bushes reduces predation by birds but provides a hiding place for cats.

3. Birds and water
Water is important to birds, both for drinking and for bathing. so it should be changed every day.
4. Hygiene
Hygiene is important. Clean up spilt grain and uneaten food; this will reduce the spread of disease.
5. Birds and salt
Most garden birds are poor at coping with salty food, it is important not to offer them anything with appreciable amount of salt in it. As such, salty fats, salty rice, salted peanuts, most cured foodstuffs, chips, etc. should not be offered to birds.
6. Native gardening
Avoid planting exotic varieties of plants in your garden use only native species of plants as they help in attracting birds and also attract native insects and pests which are an important source of food for birds and other native wildlife. Use native plants for hedges as they constitute an important part of the urban ecosystem.

IT IS NOW OR NEVER.

ફ્લેમિંગો, કુંજ અને શિકારી પક્ષીઓ સહિત દોઢ લાખથી પણ વધુ પક્ષીઓનું રણમાં ઉતરાણ

પાટણ જિલ્લાના સાંતલપુર, રાધનપુર અને સમી પંથકને અડીને આવેલા રણ વિસ્તારમાં હાલમાં ફ્લેમિંગો અને કુંજ સહિતના ૧.૫૦ લાખ જેટલા પક્ષીઓએ ઉતરાણ કર્યું હોવાનો અંદાજ વન વિભાગ દ્વારા હાથ ધરાયેલી પાણીના પક્ષીઓની ગણતરીમાં મળ્યો છે.

ચોમાસામાં વરસાદ સારો થતાં આ રણ વિસ્તારના કેટલાક ભાગોમાં જળાશયોની જેમ પાણીના તલાવડાં ભરાયા હતા. શિયાળાની શરૂઆતથી પાણી છીછરુ થવા લાગતાં આ વિસ્તારમાં કચ્છના રણમાં વસવાટ કરતાં ફ્લેમિંગો અને કુંજ સહિતના પક્ષીઓએ ઉતરાણ કર્યું હતું. હાલમાં ૧.પ૦ લાખથી પણ વધુ સંખ્યામાં વિવિધ પક્ષીઓનો રણ વિસ્તારમાં કલરવ સંભળાઇ રહ્યો છે

પાણી માટે ખિસકોલી અને પોપટ વચ્ચે ‘યુદ્ધ’, જુઓ

First Bird Census in Bharuch

પક્ષી પ્રેમી મિત્રો,

ભરૂચ જીલ્લા માં પ્રથમ વખત પક્ષી ગણતરી NCSC તથા BCSG દ્વારા હાથધરવામાં આવી હતી.

A first step in the world of birds was successfully completed.

Thanks to all.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

Meeting of Bird Lovers- Bharuch

Mr. AP Dave from NCSC(Narmadanagar Community Science Center) and 

Mr. Nitin Bhatt from BCSG(Bird Conservation Society Gujarat) invited  Bird Lovers of Bharuch at NCSC on 17th January 2012.

Many Bird Lovers of Bharuch attended the meet, Mr. Nitin presented activities and functions of BCSG and briefed about bird census techniques.

Everybody expressed their whole hearted support in forming Bird Lovers Group in Bharuch.

VULTURE CELL – BCSG

The BCSG is running a ‘Vulture Cell’ and publishing a newsletter “Gyps” dedicated to vulture conservation. 

For further details please contact:
Shri Snehal Patel, 81, Sarjan Society, Athwa Lines, Surat. e-mail: snehalpatel81@rediffmail.com, (9825110283)
OR 
Shri Kartik Shartri, Ashokwadi, Panchvati, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad- 380 006. e-mail:kartikshastri@hotmail.com 
 

Vulture Help Line

If you find an injured vulture, please contact following persons for rescue: 
Surat: Snehal Patel -9825110283
Ahmedabad: Sohum Mukherjee- 9376121616 
Anand: Dhaval Patel- 9898142170
Mahuva: Ruchi Dave- 9998047755

પક્ષી પ્રેમી મિત્રો,
 મારા આ બ્લોગ માં આપનું સ્વાગત છે.