lucknow watching and counting birds was never so useful you can contribute in the conservation of house sparrows by counting the number of birds in your neighborhood and telling the biodiversity and wildlife conservation lab of lucknow university about it university researchers and environmentalists in collaboration with uttar pradesh state biodiversity board have urged city folks to not only keep an account of the number of sparrows but also provide them food and shelter by creating nests out of waste material getting out of the house between 7am and 730am counting them and sending feedback will certainly help us in analyzing the situation said amita kanaujia associate professor in the department of zoology at lucknow university a study shows that though there has been a considerable increase in the number of house sparrows in chowk aminabad daliganj and new hyderabad due to urbanization people in gomtinagar and indiranagar have failed to see even a single sparrow let us adopt a sparrowfriendly behaviour as rampant urbanization and changing lifestyle over the years has widely destructed the natural habitat of the sparrows which love to make their nests inside houses of human beings said pratibha singh secretary of the board lack of sufficient food and excessive use of insecticides and pesticides in gardens and agricultural fields is another cause for the dwindling number of sparrows and other common birds says the study elaborating upon these singh said sparrows do not get grains to feed on as the home makers now procure packaged clean grains from supermarkets and malls and the practice of women cleaning grains at home no longer exists to raise awareness about the decline in the number of sparrows students of department of zoology of university of lucknow on thursday distributed free artificial nest boxes in different parts of the city and adjoining areas sparrow counting time get out of your homes march 20 between 700 to 730 am and count the number of sparrows and send it to upstatebiodiversityboardgmailcom wildlifeconservationlkogmailcom saving the bird ashraf ali is a passionate bird lover who has been working towards saving house sparrows for past four years besides giving water and kakun to sparrows daily ashraf has built beautiful wood houses for these birds these are placed in his balcony and porch