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[email protected]> Publisher & Host Partners Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2018 | 10(9): 12173–12193 Diversity and status of avifauna in man-made sacred ponds of Kurukshetra, India Communication Parmesh Kumar 1 & Archna Sharma 2 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) 1,2 Department of Zoology, University College, Kurukshetra University, Thanesar, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136119, India 1
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[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract: Located in the Trans-Gangetc Plains of India, Kurukshetra is doted with a number of man-made, perennial, sacred ponds of great historical and religious importance.