Maguri Beel

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A beel (Bengali: বিল) is a term for billabong or a lake-like wetland with static water (as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals - typically called khaals), in the Ganges - Brahmaputra flood plains of the Eastern Indian states of West Bengal, and Assam and in the country of Bangladesh. The term owes its origins to the word of the same pronunciation meaning "pond" in the Bengali and Assamese languages. Typically, beels are formed by inundation of low lying lands during flooding, where some water gets trapped even after flood waters recede back from the flood plains. Beels may also be caused by filling up of low lying areas during rains, especially during the monsoon season.

A bird watchers account of Maguri Beel on link below.
www.indibirding.com/2014/udaipur/birding-at-maguri-bil-...