The people of Etawah district have come forward to conserve the sparrow bird which is becoming extinct in the country due to various reasons including the wild use of chemical fertilizers and mobile phone radiation, which is proof that the sparrow’s chirping in the house here has attracted environmentalists and bird lovers. Has brought a smile on his face. Dr. Rajiv Chauhan, general secretary of the Society for Conservation of Nature, active in the direction of environmental protection, on Sunday, citing a survey report, said that in the course of the campaign being run in the direction of conservation of sparrows, the people of Etawah have kept their homes in their homes. Artificial nests have been put up. Sparrows lay eggs in those nests, after which the babies come out. People are not only happy seeing these small children, but knowingly unknowingly they also play the role of guardian.
It is not that sparrows are growing in only one or two houses. About 200 such houses have come to the fore, in which sparrow birds have made their nests. The chirping of small children is also making people happy. The time to come is of the breeding season of the sparrow bird, so this process is being seen in most of the houses. Madhavi, who lives in Etawa’s Housing Development Colony, says that four and five years ago, she got the nest for the protection of the sparrow bird, after which sparrows started coming to her house and they also laid eggs and they started having children. This is going on continuously. Advocate Vikram Singh of Friends Colony area, at whose house the sparrow bird not only builds its own nest for the last five years, but also lays eggs, whose small children increase the number of sparrow birds.
The sparrow bird laid two eggs even during the lockdown at Vikram’s house. Exasperated by the children’s chirping chirping, Vikram said that he remains extremely happy that his family is playing the right role of sparrow conservation. The effect of the state-wide campaign launched for the protection of sparrows in the Akhilesh government was that people understood that sparrows were disappearing. In the direction of saving him, a lot has also changed by planting nests etc. Today, sparrows are giving babies after laying eggs in around two hundreds of houses in the same nest.
Sparrow Day is being celebrated since 2010 due to the continuous decrease in the number of sparrows. After the formation of the Akhilesh government in Uttar Pradesh in 2012, many programs were organized by the Forest Department to save the sparrow, due to which people have become active in the direction of saving the sparrow. Many families have confirmed that sparrows not only build nests in their homes for the last four years, but also wait for the children to fly after breeding.
Britain’s ‘Royal Society of Protection of Birds’ has put sparrows in ‘Red Listy’ on the basis of studies done by researchers from India to different parts of the world, despite this, the presence of sparrows in thousands of Chambal Valley is a pleasant one. Makes you feel Sparrow is a threatened bird. In countries like Britain, Italy, France, Germany, their numbers are falling rapidly, but in the Netherlands, they have been kept in the category of rare species. The way a large number of sparrow birds are seen near Etawah, there is a pleasant feeling about the future of the sparrow, while the forest officers also have no place for happiness because such a large number of any urban or otherwise in the country. There have been no reports of sparrows being found in the wild.
Sparrow is such a bird, which nests in the courtyard of the human house and lives closest to it, but due to the expansion of cities and our changing lifestyle, now many problems are being faced in the living and food of the sparrow. This is the reason why the population of sparrows is decreasing in the cities. It is believed that sparrows were also affected during this period of urbanization. Sparrows are indoor birds, often nesting inside old houses, thatch or thatch or in bushes. Grass seeds, grains and insects are the main food of the sparrow, which was earlier available only in its homes, but now it is not so. Herds of sparrows used to hover in their courtyard throughout the day, you can say that if 40-50 birds used to come to the house earlier, then now there is not even a single one.