Cellphones and House Sparrows
@gregario888 (1276)
Aurangabad, India
September 28, 2015 11:14am CST
It is a coincidence of sorts that, ever since cellphones have come into vogue, house sparrows have become almost extinct in city locales. In order to catch a glimpse of one, you would have to move at least twenty to thirty km into the countryside.
It could either be due to the rampant cutting down of trees, and/or the signals emitting from the mobile towers. Either ways, the loss of that lovely chirping, is surely ours. You miss that familiar sight of a sparrow taking bath in a puddle, or even in dust.
Maybe they don't like the intrusive mobile signals, or it could totally be something else.
Would love your observations on this.
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@sofssu (23662)
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1 Oct 15
@gregario888 I do remember reading an online article. Someone had put a link to it and a few others on my blog. That was a few years back I guess.
I really wish they would come back. Luckily we have no towers close to us and i am trying to get them back.
@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
1 Oct 15
@sofssu Yes, sofs! Even in gardens with big trees, you may find other birds bigger in size, but not them.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
30 Sep 15
Surely sofs! I cannot recall where I read it, but there is some link between the sparrows shifting of habitat and the advent of mobile towers, or even cellphones.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
28 Sep 15
Even in city gardens, with ample greenery, there are hardly any sparrows. While if you move to hamlets, where the mobile signals are weak, you'll find them in sufficient numbers. Yesterday I traveled to a hamlet, some 15 miles from here, and saw quite a few of them in large numbers.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
30 Sep 15
@gregario888
Sounds like they are not gone completely.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
30 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Yes Marcyaz, they seem to have changed their habitats, from the more urban ones to where there are few humans. It was lovely to once again hear their chirping.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
30 Sep 15
That's great! But the city where I live is expanding very fast. It surely must be one of the causes to the absence of these birds.
@fufurinha (11930)
• Portugal
30 Sep 15
I have never been a fan of birds in general.
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@fufurinha (11930)
• Portugal
1 Oct 15
@gregario888 yes, I understand, we can get really "in love" with our animals.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
1 Oct 15
@fufurinha I like their chirping sounds, those they make at dusk, and at dawn. You surely miss these sounds in the city these days.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
1 Oct 15
I love them since I was a kid! And I miss these sparrows for sure.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
1 Oct 15
Yes, it is the most precious heritage we have, once it is gone, there is nothing we can do about it.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
1 Oct 15
@gudheart Yes Gudheart! We live in a greed filled world. It is nothing short of a curse, to see nature get destroyed.
@gudheart (12659)
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1 Oct 15
@gregario888 I know right, really sad to see nature being replaced by man made tech.
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