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Dilawar effect grips city sparrow lovers
Updated On: 21 July, 2010 08:25 AM IST | | Chetan R
Impatient with BBMP inaction, citizens have begun placing Dilawar nesting boxes on their own to repopulate Bangalore with sparrows
Impatient with BBMP inaction, citizens have begun placing Dilawar nesting boxes on their own to repopulate Bangalore with sparrows
Call it the Dilawar effect. Impatient with the speed at which the BBMP initiative to repopulate the city with sparrows is progressing, Bangaloreans have begun placing Dilawar nests or nesting boxes across the city on their own.
The boxes get their name after sparrow specialist Mohammed Dilawar, who has successfully used the boxes to draw the birds back into the city.
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| Experts say the silencing of birdsong indicates the grave damage done to the city's environment |
"Citizens, who have attending orientation sessions organised by sparrow expert Mohammed Dilawar, have begun doing their bit to bring the bird back," said Karthik K, a wildlife expert coordinating the exercise.
"Dilawar created 100 such nesting boxes that were sold within an hour of being brought into the city."u00a0
"We have no time to waste," said Narayan Maney, secretary, BNM group of institutions, who was among citizens who bought the Dilawar boxes.
"Corporators, who are supposed to solve our problems are being caught for wrongdoing by the Lokayukta.
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What can one expect from them? We have begun on our own to undo damage that has caused the birds to flee Bangalore."
Besides encouraging their habitat, these nesting boxes, also has feeder option to serve birds with broken rice and millets.
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