Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?

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Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?

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Though Sparrows are one of the most common birds in the world - here in India sparrows have become harder to spot - be it in cities, towns, or the countryside. Conservationists in Delhi have come up with a solution to boost their numbers - and it’s not just the birds who can benefit.
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@soniadas8679 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Northern part of Tripura. Here sparrows are living in my house from last 15 years and every year at the time breeding they give birth to their children. Blessed to have them in my house❤

@hritenghosh4294 Жыл бұрын

But trend is here in Tripura too, in Agartala they are very rare.

@eswaribalan164 Жыл бұрын

They lay eggs in nests and hatch them..mammals give birth. Sorry am always correcting my kids.

@hrisikeshbhattacharya5467 Жыл бұрын

Your name is Bengali tho? Do you know how to speak any of the original Tripuri languages?

@kb8519 Жыл бұрын

@@eswaribalan164 they give birth via eggs she meant mem

@djsjsjjejebfbdj 2 ай бұрын

They're completely gone from Bangalore. I miss having them around.

@bboyneon92 Жыл бұрын

Very emotional. I miss the sounds of sparrows in my city. This video brings warmth, comfort and realization.

@hasanurrahman9365 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@charmaine8512 Жыл бұрын

I remember sparrows living with us in our lawn and home. They loved to live with us building nests in the neem henna hedging on the lawn and flew in and out of our home. This was in Kota Dam which was a Hydel project done by Hind Construction in the early seventies in Kota, Rasjasthan. Sad to hear they were disappearing but now that humans are doing what they can to revive them. Enjoy your work.

@valardohaerris Жыл бұрын

Watched this video with heavy heart. I grew up with these birds at our place but with time I forgot how joyful life we had during those days, I will visit this place very soon and sit with these sparrows for a while. Thank you Scroll team for making this video.

@islandsunset Жыл бұрын

Pigeons are a major competitor for sparrows in urban areas.

@paulperry7091 Жыл бұрын

Disappearing in Australia as well. Outcompeted by mynas (another imported species), but the main reason is that they need bushes close together to move from one place to another, and there is a lot less shrubby areas in cities now. Absolute peak time for sparrows was back in the days of the horse, when they thrived on undigested grain from horse droppings.

@maureensamson4863 Жыл бұрын

Sparrows seem to thrive in villages and small towns of India .... perhaps it's the small shops with open sacks of grain outside , and grain being picked over on doorsteps . Small houses are also more conducive to providing nesting space.

@swarupsaha4087 Жыл бұрын

Are they native to Australia...?

@paulperry7091 Жыл бұрын

@@swarupsaha4087 Not native to Australia - they were imported from England, around 1860. Colonists very unwisely imported numerous animals, birds, and plants from the "Old Country" and many (like rabbits) became terrible pests. The mynas were imported to kill insect pests in market gardens at the same time - another pest!

@swarupsaha4087 Жыл бұрын

@@paulperry7091 that's sad to see so many invasives in Australia...got to do something ib war footing to curb these invasives...

@Adnancorner Жыл бұрын

House sparrow IS AN IMPORTED SPECIES IN AUSTRALIA and the Americas.

@chandanpiku Жыл бұрын

I love this bird a lot .... It's been a part of lots of happy memories of childhood ..... ❤️

@neharathore655 Жыл бұрын

This video made me bit emotional and nostalgic. We humans get so busy with life I almost forgot I grew up seeing the house sparrows every single day. Today I wonder, where do they all go?

@lathapauline1063 Жыл бұрын

When i was a small child, my mom used to feed sparrows everyday and it really amused us with their chirping. Today I'm 50, cant see a single sparrow in urban bengaluru

@senaozer2349 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, this is also true for my city Istanbul. We used to have a lot of them and it was always pleasant to hear their chirps.

@aaqsajid Жыл бұрын

Hats off to all associated with this project.. 🙏🙏🙏

@sagaronline265 Жыл бұрын

Very pleasant to hear those chirping after many many years.

@darshita1270 Жыл бұрын

Sparrows are some lovely little birds, feed them some foxtail millets and put a bowl of water.

@atinyshineforever9252 Жыл бұрын

In nepal it was seen less for 7-8 yrs but now they've came back so happy to see them😊 (not only sparrow but parrot,dove etc weren't seen i'm speculating if its becoz of earthquake )

@suhaibmomin6824 Жыл бұрын

In Pakistan we are facing the same problem. Good for india that they have started such a great work

@Sunnykr275 Жыл бұрын

Used to see them in South Delhi like 10,11 years ago. But increasing pollution and daily traffic of Delhi population made them dissappear thankfully I see them in places like this always when I get time I try to feed them. These are childhood memory for me and others who have seen them growing together they Should have been protected from all these kind of harsh environment. Well good to see them in place like this. Amazing video and explanation! 🐦

@aryans5129 Жыл бұрын

I have a couple of nests even right now in my house in bihar. Have been seeing them from childhood....and I've noticed that the major cause of their declining population are: 1) Habitat destruction (as more and more pucca houses are being built, they are not getting spaces to build nests). For that, we'll need to create some kind of structures in backyards or something for them to dwell. 2) Lack of availability of water - as we're achieving higher and higher coverage of piped drinking water, no waterbodies or even puddles are left in outdoors where they can drink water and bath. For this we need to create small water storage structures in outdoor/ terrace gardens/roofs in which water is refilled frequently. Overall, the major cause for this issue is our changing architecture.

@green2stayecoswdmarketingn339 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou, always been fond of common sparrows, in fact here in Suburban Sydney sparrows were very prevalent,,now they've completely disappeared and NOBODY has even mentioned it🤔

@hunterhq295 Жыл бұрын

These sparrows look like the ones I see around my place in Malaysia

@CoronaViRUS-nk7dx 11 ай бұрын

Masih ada ker tempat kau... tempat aku dah tak ada dah pipit rumah ni.. bertahun-tahun dah tak nampak burung ni

@bhatkrishnakishor Жыл бұрын

In my childhood house, we had placed a carton box which the sparrows made a nest and lay eggs in it. It was just amazing to have these small birds coexist with us. But when I have moved to big city, lack of these bird erks me.

@rock5989 Жыл бұрын

Remembering that when i was kid used see these sparrows so much specially in my village. Nowadays i live in town when i see them it's like miracle.

@rahulmandal3230 Жыл бұрын

Last time i saw a sparrow in Delhi was during lockdown after many years, these are lovely bird, in my childhood i used to feed them but now they are nowhere near to my house.

@S.Ghosh_221 Жыл бұрын

I remember Sparrows once in my neighbourhood in Kolkata. Now I don't see them anymore. But I have seen increasing numbers of crows, Spotted Doves, Myna and Kites. Sparrows couldn't adapt to urbanisation in my opinion. They still are extant in outskirts where there are trees and soil.

@TheMegapenthes Ай бұрын

It is so heartening to see so many sparrows! God! Can't imagine one day I'll be watching sparrows with delight, something which so common a sight during my childhood. I remember I would shoo them away from my balcony if I saw a couple of them nibbling wheat-grains spread out on the floor. And today, I'm watching them in this video with a lot of warmth. How much time has changed!

@Sukanya-ld8yb Жыл бұрын

We need one of this habitat in Bangalore !! ❤... Great work on trying to get them back !! 🎉

@watISee Жыл бұрын

Thanks for saving Sparrows !

@rathinpaul1057 8 ай бұрын

I love Sparrows . Please bring them Back . They Are Real Angels . They are children of Gods .

@siddharthaganguli5299 Жыл бұрын

Very heartening and inspiring story.. Thanks a lot.

@loveistheway8417 Жыл бұрын

In Canada ive never seen sparrows living inside but i remember many sparrows living in the city nonetheless. There used to be as many sparrows as there were pigeons. Now i hardly ever see any. I miss them

@kajalchauhan8361 Жыл бұрын

Me living in village of Haryana,in our area . Around my house lots of variety of trees are there . field alsothere .Houses also . Everything is balanced.Sparrows are wonderful.i love them, blessed to see them daily.

@user-pp8cr2gz7w Жыл бұрын

I used to wake up during my school days by the whispers of these sparrows but my children are not fortunate to see these sparrows in our surroundings.

@PNBcreation8806 Жыл бұрын

Great initiative to save the sparrows.. .

@Restore2761 Жыл бұрын

Miss those chidiya's 😭😭😭😭😭please come back

@prathibakrishna Жыл бұрын

What can we(common person) do to bring back sparrows ? a kind of guide would be more helpful. Thanks for the awareness video.

@lucykelly7152 Жыл бұрын

Maybe use birdfeeders. Maybe put up a nestbox. Plants bushes for them to nest and hide in. Especially bushes which produce berries that they can eat. Put out water. Tell others about the need of small birds for these things. Join a bird conservation society.

@deepakpratapgangwar583 Жыл бұрын

Great work....nagar van, city forest, biodiversity sites, r urgent to be notified

@siddharth7857 Жыл бұрын

Well the video was good but you should have also given us some tips on what we citizens can do, living in cities and high rise apartments.

@calebbhandoo Жыл бұрын

Very true, we like citizens of the country should take a step towards preserving not only our heritage but also towards saving our wildlife. A small step like setting up an bird feeder outside the house for sparrows especially makes a big difference.

@maureensamson4863 Жыл бұрын

I have heard cases where building residents have objected to the feeding of birds on balconies.... if I remember rightly , the matter even went to Court and the ruling was against feeding the birds . Please clarify , in case this is misinformation .

@lucykelly7152 Жыл бұрын

@@maureensamson4863 It may depend on local laws. Make sure you elect animal friendly politicians. People who don't like animals are mentally ill. They lack empathy. It is actually a serious illness called psychopathy. Such people really belong in mental hospitals. They are uncaring. They are the kind of people who commit murder, or war crimes.

@Melvin641 Жыл бұрын

Great job guys ❤

@anaibarangan4908 Жыл бұрын

I'm actually beginning to watch a movie, "All That Breathes", about black kite birds that fall from the sky in New Delhi because of the pollution, and two brothers that care about them, care for them.

@ashokbishnoi299 Жыл бұрын

सभी महानुभावों को शत शत शत

@SaumyaRastogi2 Жыл бұрын

Great work 🧡

@rajnishsingh1094 10 ай бұрын

Good documentary 👏

@Cascadia007 Жыл бұрын

This is true, there used to a lot of them in my backyard , but now they aren't. I miss those sparrows and squirrels and crows making sounds and living together in harmony

@SaumyaRastogi2 Жыл бұрын

Hats off to Heroes of Earth 🙂💚

@navneetrama Жыл бұрын

Myna is also a big reason of disappearance. We can see more mynas and crows in india now a days. These words tough and resistive to the modron life style

@ayush885 Жыл бұрын

The reason is pigeons. Everywhere that sparrows live, pigeons can live as well, pigeons being much larger, can easily scare away sparrows. Sparrows are left to places so small where pigeons can't enter.

@jerolvilladolid Жыл бұрын

Sparrows are not biologically designed to live in concrete cities full of toxic carbon monoxide smoke and poisonous food and water found in garbage cans. They were designed by evolution to roam clean forests and marshlands. The fact that sparrows managed to thrive this long into human encroachment of their habitat is the true mystery.

@12villages Жыл бұрын

We used to have terracotta roof(laal kavla) in mumbai where sparrows would prefer nesting under the wood columns supporting the Kavla. Then people replaced them with cement/asbestos roofs and destroyed their ability to nest. At night, they prefer resting on bor(jujube) trees because its thorns kept predators away. These have also been cut down and ugly buildings have been built in its place. Then another disaster happened. People started keeping cats to keep rats under control. Millions of cats in every locality raided sparrows left and right every single day till they left on their own like kashmiri pandits from the valley. Mumbai is now dominated by two birds - crows(70%) and pigeons(30%) and two animals - dogs (40%) and cats(60%). Destruction has already happened and no municipality did anything to stop it nor realised it happened.

@chigurysalmanchi6674 Жыл бұрын

Too much in our house like hundreds of them and sometimes a menace or may be they're migrating to our house. I'm from Meghalaya.

@believeroflight9888 Жыл бұрын

I don't think it is because of lack of food. My area has many type of birds . Even parrots, hummingbirds , weaver birds and the notorious kabar . But all of them are thriving , just sparrows are vanishing. The reason is not scarcity of food.

@chrisaguilera1564 Жыл бұрын

"The end of days is marked by the sound of silence."

@user-qp4iz6mx3g 10 ай бұрын

Super

@AmitSingh-fg9mj Жыл бұрын

As you move east you find more n more of them. The house i was grown up in was the house of these sparrows also.

@oceantravelers1235 4 ай бұрын

I have rescue and pet many house sparrow and in our area there are lot of house sparrow. One day I had seen more than 1000 of house sparrow flying in the sky together at evening.

@S507107314 Жыл бұрын

I am from Hyderabad and am really disappointed to see Pigeons over-populating all over the city and as a bird watcher, I have been noticing this pattern for the last few years. We have to limit these pigeons to allow other birds to come back into city

@user-ud4bt3dz3c Жыл бұрын

Pigeons are pests , They are causing irreparable damages to our ecosystem .

@rams5380 9 ай бұрын

but there are sparrows in hyderabad

@ravirp03 Жыл бұрын

Save sparrow 🐦🐦

@ZubairKhan-tf4gl Жыл бұрын

Sir, I want to install many nests for sparrows. Where can I get them.

@arnabrajshow8988 9 ай бұрын

For whole child hood I saw decline of sparrows in my city, it’s concerning, an wonderful creature is now going away from us

@kingsleyperera9655 10 ай бұрын

They dissappeared from Srilanka Cities too but are very very slowly emeging in small towns !

@mahfuzulhaquenayeem8561 Жыл бұрын

It may turn to be a wrong "calculation" for being sad on the human consciousness seeing that such a provoking video on nature conservation received only '1.5K likes' out of '35K' viewers.

@aonyx5270 Жыл бұрын

Lack of insect food due to pesticides has to be the biggest factor.

@madhurajr4454 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@iamdevs Жыл бұрын

That Sohil guy in this video seems to have smoked up 😜😜

@eswaribalan164 Жыл бұрын

Birds create jungles. Birds drop seeds all over my lawn which is full of tree seedlings. But yes, no house sparrows.

@jamsheertirur1758 Жыл бұрын

Very lucky people to live here 🐥🐦

@tsheringbhutia6402 Жыл бұрын

we had sparrows in our house,they use to live in our roof top..but now they have disappeared...

@junii741 Жыл бұрын

There are a lot of sparrows in Kashmir, but i travelled to himachal, here i don't see any sparrows.

@xyzpeace7814 Жыл бұрын

Sparrow visits ladakh during spring time n stays till late Summer... But in coming years sparrow migration has decreased...

@raviyadav-py6no 7 ай бұрын

What can people living in urban settings do to help them flourish.

@protickkhandkar Жыл бұрын

I don't think this way

@tarunce995 Жыл бұрын

Good people are still left !!

@rohitsindhav7971 Жыл бұрын

In Rajasthan uniara my home town having sparrows but now days pecockare not seen easily and trees are become less

@Jmatad21 Ай бұрын

In older times, the disappearance of sparrow would be taken as a warning of a big famine to come.

@user-ju9yx2uw1t 11 ай бұрын

Please give some writen information

@indian9632 Жыл бұрын

I put out water for birds in the summer. Please everyone do it. Its tough for them to find water in the summer

@Ayush-ku5jm 6 ай бұрын

Which month sparrow come to nest

@Yayanofisial Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@ChaitanyaArige 3 ай бұрын

Please we need to conserve them ...

@SuzanaMantovaniCerqueira Жыл бұрын

😢

@sunk785 Жыл бұрын

My feveret birds and I enjoyed a lot with this bird's in my childhood, I love these birds,. I am suspecting cell phone towers rediation may causing for this issue

@CHIBItheSPARROW 6 ай бұрын

It's not just sparrows, all songbirds are in decline, along with most other animals. We are in the middle of the 6th great animal extinction and have only ourselves to blame for this one.

@gtablurt5791 Жыл бұрын

Useful creatures that eat insects that helps rice farmers.

@abc_cba Жыл бұрын

Most of them die due to shock of the sounds of firecrackers during the festival of Diwali. The remainder are dying with extreme heat and climate change. Thankfully, Germany has somehow worked on halting their extinction of Guraya or Sparrow as we call them.

@tarunce995 Жыл бұрын

The delhi forest department.. seems hope is left ,!!!!!!

@naveenabaleguli 9 ай бұрын

I have heard people saying that the mobile tower radiations are killing these birds. Is that true?

@Jmatad21 Ай бұрын

Only in south indian movies

@karate4348 Жыл бұрын

Sparrows and bats I watched them and then their disappearance (sparrows..bats lasted) in Western Londin especially...now bats in the semi tropical raingforest of se qld. Mobile signals, pesticide, lack of bushes.... Humans..we have to stop mucking up magnificent nature.

@PRC7700 Жыл бұрын

Pakshiraja❤

@kira988 4 ай бұрын

Mere Ghar k paas sparrow bht aate the ab kam aate hain.. mgr main unke liye pani aur khana rakha karta hoon

@sunk785 Жыл бұрын

Please save them..., Cutting trees for urbanisation may causing these issue....

@Venissa28 Жыл бұрын

Sparrows are disappearing from India because they don't like India. And they are migrating to other countries. I am not joking this is a fact.

@Jmatad21 Ай бұрын

They are talking about sparrows, not your family story.

@bryangomes373 Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏❤️💚💚

@maheshyogi5913 Жыл бұрын

They have disappeared after mobile towers came into existence. I remember them seen them committing suicides. As long as landline was there black and white tv was there cable was there they were there. Afterwards mobile internet towers came! And sparrows were gone

@sabihatanveer8494 Жыл бұрын

👌🌿🐜🕸🦅

@minipuri1903 Жыл бұрын

No place to make nestfor sparrows. They are very shy with humans.

@myplanetmyreligion48 Жыл бұрын

What a common man should do to get back the sparrows , would have been more beneficial..

@Shanthakumar 6 ай бұрын

@erickane7093 Жыл бұрын

…because they taste good? 🤔

@rhombifer566 3 ай бұрын

Don't worry, there's enough in Ohio to repopulate the whole world

@rohitmaurya5629 Жыл бұрын

Hindi bolne me sharam aati hai tujhe

@buttercup9903 11 ай бұрын

I live in NYC and I’m glad to say that we have a lot of house sparrows. Many people here don’t like them because they aren’t native, but I love them ❤️🥰