Harike Wetland, the Glossary
Harike Wetland also known as "Hari-ke-Pattan", with the Harike Lake in the deeper part of it, is the largest wetland in northern India in the border of Tarn Taran Sahib district and Ferozepur district of the Punjab state in India.[1]
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Ambassis
Ambassis is a genus of fish in the family Ambassidae, the Asiatic glassfishes.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
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Animal sanctuary
An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and to be protected for the rest of their lives.
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Annelid
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
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Aquatic mammal
Aquatic and semiaquatic mammals are a diverse group of mammals that dwell partly or entirely in bodies of water.
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Azolla
Azolla (mosquito fern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.
Bathinda
Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India.
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Beas River
The Beas River is a river in north India.
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Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, south of India's capital, New Delhi, from Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, west of Agra of Uttar Pradesh and from Mathura of Uttar Pradesh.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Black-headed gull
The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic including Europe and also in coastal eastern Canada.
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Black-necked grebe
The black-necked grebe or eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
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Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.
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Brown shrike
The brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) is a bird in the shrike family that is found mainly in Asia.
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Brown-headed gull
The brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) is a small gull which breeds in the high plateaus of central Asia from Tajikistan to Ordos in Inner Mongolia.
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Catla
Catla (Labeo catla), (translit) also known as the major South Asian carp, is an economically important South Asian freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae.
Ceratophyllum
Ceratophyllum is a cosmopolitan genus of flowering plants including four accepted living species in 2016, commonly found in ponds, marshes, and quiet streams in tropical and in temperate regions.
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Cetti's warbler
Cetti's warbler (Cettia cetti) is a small, brown bush-warbler which breeds in southern and central Europe, northwest Africa and the east Palearctic as far as Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan.
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Channa
Channa is a genus of predatory fish in the family Channidae, commonly known as snakeheads, native to freshwater habitats in Asia.
Charales
Charales is an order of freshwater green algae in the division Charophyta, class Charophyceae, commonly known as stoneworts.
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Chitala chitala
Chitala chitala (Assamese: চিতল sitawl, Bengali: চিতল, chitol) is a knifefish from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, found in the Brahmaputra, Indus, Ganges and Mahanadi River basins.
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Common woodshrike
The common woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus) is a species of bird found in Asia.
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Cotton pygmy goose
The cotton pygmy goose or cotton teal (Nettapus coromandelianus) is a small perching duck which breeds in Asia, Southeast Asia extending south and east to Queensland where they are sometimes called white-quilled pygmy goose.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Cyprinus
Cyprinus is the genus of typical carps in family Cyprinidae.
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Dalbergia sissoo
Dalbergia sissoo, known commonly as North Indian rosewood or shisham, is a fast-growing, hardy, deciduous rosewood tree native to the Indian subcontinent and southern Iran.
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Dehradun
Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Discharge (hydrology)
In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate (volume per time, in units of m3/h or ft3/h) of a stream.
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Diving duck
The diving ducks, commonly called pochards or scaups, are a category of duck which feed by diving beneath the surface of the water.
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Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
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Effluent
Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility.
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Eurasian hobby
The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) or just hobby, is a small, slim falcon.
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Eurasian tree sparrow
The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape and a black patch on each pure white cheek.
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Faridkot, India
Faridkot is a city in the South-western part of state of Punjab, India.
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Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
Firozpur
Firozpur, (pronunciation: fɪroːzpʊr) also known as Ferozepur, is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Ganges river dolphin
The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is a species of freshwater dolphin classified in the family Platanistidae.
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Gharial
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Government of Punjab, India
The Government of Punjab, also known as the State Government of Punjab or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 23 districts.
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Great crested grebe
The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Harike
Harike is a village in Patti Tehsil in Tarn Taran district of the Indian state of Punjab.
Hawk
Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
Headworks
Headworks is a civil engineering term for any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway.
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Hen harrier
The hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) is a bird of prey.
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Horned grebe
The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small and threatened species of waterbird in the family Podicipedidae.
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Hydrilla
Hydrilla (waterthyme) is a genus of aquatic plant, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
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Indian skimmer
The Indian skimmer or Indian scissors-bill (Rynchops albicollis) is one of the three species that belong to the skimmer genus Rynchops in the family Laridae.
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Indira Gandhi Canal
The Indira Gandhi Canal (originally, Rajasthan Canal) is the longest canal in India.
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Indus River
The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.
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Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica, widely known as water spinach, is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots.
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IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
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Kanjli Wetland
Kanjli Wetland is a man-made Wetland that subsumes the Kanjli Lake, and is located in the Kapurthala district of Punjab state in India. Harike Wetland and Kanjli Wetland are Ramsar sites in India and wetlands of India.
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Kapurthala
Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India.
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Keoladeo National Park
Keoladeo National Park, or Keoladeo Ghana National Park, is a national park in Rajasthan, India. Harike Wetland and Keoladeo National Park are Ramsar sites in India.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
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Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
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Mystus
Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.
Najas
Najas, the water-nymphs or naiads, is a genus of aquatic plants.
National highways of India
The national highways in India are a network of limited access roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
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Neltuma juliflora
Neltuma juliflora (bayahonda blanca, Cuji in Venezuela, Trupillo in Colombia, Aippia in the Wayuunaiki language and long-thorn kiawe in Hawaii) is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae, a kind of mesquite.
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Nelumbo nucifera
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
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North India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Pallas's gull
Pallas's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus), also known as the great black-headed gull, is a large bird species.
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Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.
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Potamogeton
Potamogeton is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
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Punjab, India
Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.
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Puntius
Puntius is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia, as well as Taiwan.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).
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Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Rohu
The rohu, rui, ruhi or roho labeo (Labeo rohita) is a species of fish of the carp family, found in rivers in South Asia.
Rotifer
The rotifers (from the Latin rota, "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
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Rufous-vented grass babbler
The rufous-vented grass babbler or rufous-vented prinia (Laticilla burnesii) is a small warbler in the family Pellorneidae that occurs in Pakistan, northwestern India and Nepal.
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Siltation
Siltation is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.
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Sivalik Hills
The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas.
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Smooth-coated otter
The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a freshwater otter species from regions of South and Southwest Asia, with the majority of its numbers found in Southeast Asia.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the denudation or wearing away of the upper layer of soil.
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Striated grassbird
The striated grassbird (Megalurus palustris) is an "Old World warbler" species in the family Locustellidae.
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Sulphur-bellied warbler
The sulphur-bellied warbler (Phylloscopus griseolus) is a species of leaf-warbler found in the Palearctic region (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan).
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Sutlej
The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.
Tarn Taran Sahib
Tarn Taran Sahib is a city in the Majha region of the state of Punjab, in northern India.
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Tufted duck
The tufted duck (or tufted pochard) (Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds, found in northern Eurasia.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
Typha
Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.
Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia nilotica, more commonly known as Acacia nilotica, and by the vernacular names of gum arabic tree, babul, thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia, is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae.
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Vallisneria
Vallisneria (named in honor of Antonio Vallisneri) is a genus of freshwater aquatic plant, commonly called eelgrass, tape grass or vallis.
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Watercock
The watercock (Gallicrex cinerea) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae that is widely distributed across Southeast Asia.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
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White-browed fantail
The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) is a small passerine bird belonging to the family Rhipiduridae.
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White-crowned penduline tit
The white-crowned penduline tit (Remiz coronatus) is a species of bird in the family Remizidae.
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White-rumped vulture
The white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is an Old World vulture native to South and Southeast Asia.
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White-tailed stonechat
The white-tailed stonechat (Saxicola leucurus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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White-winged tern
The white-winged tern, or white-winged black tern (Chlidonias leucopterus or Chlidonias leucoptera), is a species of tern in the family Laridae.
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Wildlife Institute of India
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous natural resource service institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Yellow-crowned woodpecker
The yellow-crowned woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent.
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Yellow-eyed pigeon
The yellow-eyed pigeon, pale-backed pigeon, yellow-eyed dove or yellow-eyed stock dove (Columba eversmanni) is a member of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).
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The yellow-footed gull (Larus livens) is a large gull, closely related to the western gull and thought to be a subspecies until the 1960s.
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Ziziphus
Ziziphus is a genus of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae.
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See also
Tourist attractions in Amritsar
- Akal Takht
- Attari–Wagah border ceremony
- Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Sthal
- Durgiana Temple
- Golden Temple
- Gurdwara Baba Atal
- Harike Wetland
- Heritage Street Amritsar
- Jallianwala Bagh
- Lists of tourist attractions in Amritsar
- Maha Kali Mandir
- Partition Museum
- Ramgarhia Bunga
Wetlands of India
- Ana Sagar Lake
- Bandh Baretha
- Banni Grasslands Reserve
- Basai Wetland
- Bhalswa Horseshoe Lake
- Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary
- Bhitarkanika Mangroves
- Blue Bird Lake
- Chari-Dhand Wetland Conservation Reserve
- Chhawla or Najafgarh drain city forest
- Chilika Lake
- Dhanauri Wetlands
- Gokul barrage
- Haiderpur Wetland
- Harike Wetland
- Hokersar
- ITO barrage
- Kaliveli Lake
- Kanjia Lake
- Kanjli Wetland
- Kaushalya Dam
- Khaparwas Wildlife Sanctuary
- Khazan system
- Kongur wetland
- Kothaimangalam Wetlands
- Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary
- Lotus Lake Wetland Thirunavaya Malappuram
- Masani barrage
- Najafgarh Lake
- Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary
- New Okhla Barrage
- Okhla Sanctuary
- Okhla barrage
- Panje-Dongri wetlands
- Pulicat Lake
- Ropar Wetland
- Sambhar Salt Lake
- Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary
- Sarsai Nawar Wetland
- Satkosia Gorge
- Sirudavoor Lake
- Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary
- Sundarbans
- Thrissur-Ponnani Kole Wetlands
- Wadhvana Wetland
- Wazirabad barrage
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harike_Wetland
Also known as Hari ke Pattan, Hari-ke-Pattan.
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