Chief scientist of the Regional Agriculture Research Centre in Lakhimpur, Prabal Saikia, said, "It is a fact that sparrows are becoming scarce throughout Assam - both house and tree sparrows."
Saikia said his research on house sparrows conducted in Guwahati and Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Sonitpur, Jorhat and Tinsukia districts found that they had been sighted in greater number in the Dikhowmukh area of Upper Assam along the banks of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries in Dikhow and Mitong.
"Comparatively less pollution, large number of thatched huts and general awareness about environment protection are responsible for the concentration of sparrows at Dikhowmukh," Saikia pointed out.
Environmental activist Hiren Dutta of conservation organisation "Nature's Beckon", while conducting a survey in greater Dikhowmukh, found that a group of sparrows had set up a colony in the verandah of a house at Krisnasiga village.MORE
