Artificial nest box for house sparrow: An apt method to save the dwindling species from the urban environment

House sparrow Passer domesticus belongs to Passeriformes order and Passeridae Family. It has a worldwide distribution living in all continents and many of oceanic Islands. Some of the ecologists believe that this bird is a symbiotic species with human, hence recognizing and identified as a bird species depended on human environments. A lack of holes suitable for nest sites on modern or renovated buildings has been proposed as a possible cause of the house sparrow population decline. There has been an increase in the use of plastic fascia boards and the use of contoured tiles or roofing sheets to prevent the entry of birds on modern housing. House sparrows predominantly nest in holes and gaps in soffit boards and under tiles, therefore this tendency may have an impact of the availability of nest sites. Hence the present study was undertaken to apt a suitable method to conserve the house sparrow population in urban areas of Sivakasi town by erecting artificial nest boxes in Sivakasi town from October 2012 October 2013 and obtained a positive response by the house sparrow towards the artificial nest boxes.