… As a biologist with Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources [Kyle] Stone serves as the Project Leader for the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, which has been counting migratory birds around the lake and its wetlands since 1997. “With these low lake conditions, we’re seeing a lot of the birds that are here are being artificially concentrated in the areas that are left,” Stone said about the current spring migration. … As other saline lakes decline, particularly in California, more of the birds are being drawn to Great Salt Lake. “Used to be a lot of those birds were going to the Salton Sea,” Stone explained. “Now that the Salton Sea is mostly dry, that’s no longer available to them.” Stone noted similar behaviors happening with the decline of Mono Lake, just east of Yosemite National Park.