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Seagull Monument. Shortly after the Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, crisis gripped the new colonies as swarms of crickets, later named Mormon crickets, attacked their crops in June 1848. After much prayer and fasting, flocks of seagulls came and ate the crickets, making the Seagull worthy of its exhalted position as Utah's state bird. (As you might imagine, the Mormon Cricket is not<_i> Utah's state insect.) The Mormon pioneers recognized this as a miracle, and later this monument was erected to honor the great gull.
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