A Discussion with Grandpa during January 2015 on House Sparrows in our Native Village

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