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Great Salt Lake Audubon is sponsoring its seventh annual Utah Birders "Gullstravaganza" Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The cost is a $5 donation to the organization.
Every winter, California Gulls congregate on the edges of the Great Salt Lake to search for food at nearby landfills, parks, wildlife management areas and anywhere with open water.
Other gills that stray from their normal winter ranges often join these birds.
According to Great Salt Lake Audubon, this creates a mix of thousands of California gulls along with smaller numbers of ring-billed gulls, Thayer's gulls and Herring gulls. Birders might also see Glaucous, Glaucous-winged, Mew, Lesser black-backed, western and Iceland gulls.
To sign up, go to Great Salt Lake Audubon's website at http://www.greatsaltlakeaudubon.org.