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Artificial breeding of house sparrows mooted [1]

House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) once a common sight, has witnessed a sharp decline in its population and have become a rare sight. File photo: Ritu Raj Konwar

To focus on the rapidly declining population of the bird, ornithologists and bird lovers in Orissa have suggested artificial breeding to increase their numbers

Publication Date: 
31/03/2010
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Animal Breeding [3], Wildlife [4], Sparrow [5], Orissa (Odisha) [6]
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/animal-breeding
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sparrow
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa