Travancore Nature History Society
(TNHS), the city-based NGO, striving to protect the environment and create an awareness for up-keeping the rich
bio-diversity of southern Western Ghats and its penumbral regions, has been
engaged in taking counts of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) seen in and around Thiruvananthapuram city, ever
since March 20 has come to be observed as World Sparrow Day (WSD) in 2010. This
year also, during the run up to the Day, members of the Society scouted the
nook and corner of the city, noting down the numbers of the birds. A general trend
observed in 2020 was a marginal to significant fall in the number of sparrows over
last couple of years in known sparrow hubs like Connemara market, Chalai and
Vettucaud regions. Whereas in pockets such as Sulaiman Street and Beemapallly, there were sharp increase in its numbers.
