Major Migrations - Stay Curious, Utah!
Birds are some of the world’s most impressive migrators! Each year millions travel hundreds or even thousands of miles to the Great Salt Lake of Utah, where they can rest, find friends, and have safe places to hatch and raise their young. Like birds and other animals, humans also find their way to the Great Salt Lake area, often for the same reasons. Through our Great Salt Lake exhibit, learn more about the Great Salt Lake of Utah and the millions of birds that visit Utah’s wetlands and watersheds each year during their great migrations, and explore how our human migration stories connect us to lives of these incredible birds.
Virtual Field Trip of Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the once-massive Lake Bonneville, which stretched 300+ miles end to end. Learn about how the Great Salt Lake and surrounding area have evolved over time and meet the diverse creatures that now make it their home, including the many birds that use it as a pit stop in their migration!
Activities
How to Fill Up a Lake
Use patterns and cause and effect to explore how different landforms help create lakes.
Birds of the Great Salt Lake
Many birds rely on the Great Salt Lake. Get creative while actively learning more about them.
People of the Great Salt Lake
Many animals have relied on and migrated to the Great Salt Lake, but what about humans?
Recorded Q&A with Biologist Katie Newburn - March 23, 2021
Katie Newburn is the Education & Outreach Director for FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, a nonprofit organization founded in 1994 with the mission to preserve and protect the Great Salt Lake ecosystem through education, research, advocacy, and the arts. Katie facilitates the organization's environmental education programs, which seek to develop the next generation of Great Salt Lake stewards. These programs help students experience and understand the lake's weird and wonderful ecosystem, the threats it's facing, and how we can all help to protect it. Hint: saving water!