This is a great pity considering the many benefits that this small bird offers. However, such niches or cavities do not exist in the new pattern of architecture and modern buildings. Even if they dropped nesting material, it was quietly cleaned up by the residents. And when sparrows used to flit around, they were not considered intrusive by most people and were almost treated like family members. Long ago, even in cities and towns, old houses had niches within the interiors where they nested and crevices in their roofs too. This is why they are disappearing from cities and towns which need them-because their habitats are disappearing and their food is disappearing. The gentle sparrow is also easily scared off by big noises which occur more in crowded, urban areas.
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The explosion in the population which has led to hundreds of tall apartment blocks and office buildings dotting the urban skyline, increased use of pesticides in fields, lack of homes with gardens, tall cellphone towers, the larger pigeons which scare off the smaller sparrows, and the release of radiation from the mobile and TV towers as well as emission of carbon-dioxide from automobiles have been causes of decline and slow disappearance of sparrows from urban areas. They can be found only in the gardens and backyards of homes which have these large, green spaces and these are anyway a small part of the urban-housing scene. Today, forget congregations, even a lone sparrow or two would be difficult to come by in the crowded urban-housing clusters where most of us live today. My grandmother would feed them, as she would the countless other little birds that flitted around inside and outside the home and even made nests in crevices and niches in the roofs. In the backyard, in the neighbours’ homes, where we went to visit, in and around the paddy fields and on trees lining the small lanes and bylanes that crisscrossed our ancestral village. Visiting my grandparents’ village in the backwaters of the Godavari river as children, we used to see congregations of house sparrows.
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