From the archive record
Group of Sparrows in Rajasthan. Passer domesticus or the Common House Sparrow is becoming increasingly rare in Indian cities... The Chidiya or Gauriyya in Hindi. Rajasthan the land of Rajasthanis, is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the state. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga, which are the oldest in the subcontinent discovered so far. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness