(birds tweeting) - [Catherine] Mono Lake isn't a place that you necessarily hear about all the time, but when you get here and you realize how special this place is... The tufa, the shrimp and the ...

As the sea dried up, Mono Lake survived and a unique ecosystem developed around the brine shrimp that thrived in the water and attracted migratory birds and other life. Below the surface ...

On their way south, most of these birds congregate at Great Salt Lake in Utah, with other important staging sites including Lake Abert in Oregon and Mono Lake in California. These big salt lakes ...