My native village is
Seelathikulam , Radhapuram Taluk , Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu. Do you
know about house sparrows? House Sparrows (Passer
domesticus) are the native of India. Now a days we can't see house sparrows
in the urban surroundings, but rarely see them in some remote villages of South
Tamil Nadu. We can see house sparrows in my native village.
I asked my grandfather why there are house
sparrows only in our village. He told that house sparrows would make their nest
in the small cuboidal shape holes present between the walls and tiles of the
roof of the houses in the villages. He took me to a place in top of our ancestral
home. It was filled with darkness. He showed me the eggs of the house sparrows.
I was astonished seeing it because it was in the cuboidal holes seen in walls of
the house. The hole was filled with twigs and dried leaves. I asked my
grandfather why there are twigs and dried leaves. He told that the house
sparrows will have the twigs and dried leaves to safeguard them from the cool
nights which keep them warm.
I also enquired him whether there
are house sparrows all over our villages. He said yes and he took me to show
the house sparrows all over our village. My grandfather told that there are
very less house sparrows found in the urban areas. A question came in my mind
and I asked my grandfather why there are no house sparrows seen in urban areas.
He told that there are no holes seen in the walls of the houses in the urban
and he also told that many of the sparrows were killed due to the radioactive
signals emitted by the cell phone towers. Now we started conserving the
sparrows of our village. Because of these conservation tasks of the house sparrows
we didn't change the traditional styles of building our homes.
LET US ALL JOIN HANDS TO CONSERVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL HOUSE
SPARROWS
WORLD SPARROW DAY, 2016
