Seagull Monument, Bronze bird monument at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, United States.

The Seagull Monument stands just east of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square. It consists of a granite pedestal and column topped by a granite ball, on which two bronze seagulls with an 8-foot wingspan are mounted. The granite came from Mount Airy, North Carolina, and the original gold leaf on the gulls was removed in 2024.

Dedicated in 1913, the monument commemorates an 1848 event when California gulls arrived and consumed insect swarms threatening farmers' crops. The rescue became embedded in Mormon community memory as a defining moment of early settlement.

The 1848 rescue is known among Latter-day Saints as the "miracle of the gulls." The California gull later became Utah's state bird. The monument was dedicated on October 1, 1913, before a crowd of about 5,000, with Emmeline B. Wells, who had witnessed the 1848 event as a young woman, unveiling it.

The monument stands just east of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square. In early 2024 it was temporarily removed for landscaping during the square's multi-year renovation and returned later that year, when the surrounding pool was replaced by flower beds. Check current access before planning a visit.

The original monument site contained a pool with water lilies and goldfish, later replaced by rainbow trout when the gulls kept eating the fish. This adjustment reflects the practical challenges of maintaining a natural feature alongside wild birds.