“Especially for shorebirds, it’s really viewed as irreplaceable,” said Marcelle Shoop, director of the Saline Lakes Program for the National Audubon Society, “because there aren’t many habitats out there like that.'
The Great Salt Lake is following a similar downward spiral. It sank to a record low last year, then American white pelicans on the Great Salt Lake in 2021.of these saline lake systems to understand their current status and how their fates are linked.
But more than half the region’s salty lakes have shrunk by 50% to 95% over the past 150 years. And shorebird populations have plunged by 70% since the 1970s. While some might not have much interest in the charismatic birds these systems support, their decline signals a threat to everyone and everything living in the Great Basin.
Northern shovelers, Luft said, typically feed on the seeds washed into the lake’s bays by rivers like the Bear and Weber. Now those rivers are getting sucked dry before they reach the lake. The seeds aren’t coming. The ducks are starving.
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