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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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  1. 114 relations: Ambassis, Amphibian, Animal sanctuary, Annelid, Aquatic mammal, Azolla, Bathinda, Beas River, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Biodiversity, Black-headed gull, Black-necked grebe, Bombay Natural History Society, Brown shrike, Brown-headed gull, Catla, Ceratophyllum, Cetti's warbler, Channa, Charales, Chitala chitala, Common woodshrike, Cotton pygmy goose, Crustacean, Cyprinus, Dalbergia sissoo, Dehradun, Discharge (hydrology), Diving duck, Ecology, Effluent, Eurasian hobby, Eurasian tree sparrow, Faridkot, India, Ficus, Firozpur, Fish, Ganges river dolphin, Gharial, Government of India, Government of Punjab, India, Great crested grebe, Groundwater, Harike, Hawk, Headworks, Hen harrier, Horned grebe, Hydrilla, India, ... Expand index (64 more) »

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hawk

Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Najas

Najas, the water-nymphs or naiads, is a genus of aquatic plants.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Typha

Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.

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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

Wetlands of India

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harike_Wetland

Also known as Hari ke Pattan, Hari-ke-Pattan.

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