locustella
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Artificial lake, but according to many sources very interesting birding spot (Western and Clark's Grebes, American White Pelican, Cattle Egret, White-faced Ibis, Gambel's Quails, "Yuma" Clapper Rail, American Avocet, Black-necked Stilt, Costa's Hummingbird, Say's Phoebe, Common Ground-Dove, Greater Roadrunner, Burrowing Owl, Gila and Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Black Phoebe, Verdin, Cactus and Marsh Wrens, Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, Crissal Thrasher, Abert's Towhee, and many many more).
Salton Sea Is Blamed for Southern California Stench NYT > Today 7:43 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/us/salton-sea-is-blamed-for-southern-california-stench.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Environment|By IAN LOVETT
Decaying organic matter in the Salton Sea, a shrinking saline accident of irrigation in the Colorado Desert, is thought to have caused a sulfurous olfactory insult.