Editing Utah Lake (section)

===Birds===
During the 1800s and the 1930s, killing fish-eating birds were seen as a fish conservation measure. Local government entities gave bounties, and upon presenting evidence of offending dead birds, game officers paid the bounties.<ref name="Terrestrial_Vertebrates_in_the_Environs_of_Utah_Lake 1981 135"/> A report by a hunter states, "There was a bounty paid on cranes and heron in 1895. Two men could make as high as $66 a day. Wading into the rookeries with their pants off they would crack the heron over the head. When the bounty was paid on pelican we would use a fish float tide to a wad of rushes. Gulls were also caught. There has been 10,000 slaughtered. At the Big Channel gidls have been shot and there are four or five hundred pelicans which have been shot. In 1928 I killed 1,240 mudhens [coot]. We would eat the hearts and gizzards, take the feathers and oil and discard the rest."<ref name="Terrestrial_Vertebrates_in_the_Environs_of_Utah_Lake 1981 135"/>

[[File:Pelicans and ducks at Utah Lake.JPG|thumb|left|Pelicans and ducks at Utah Lake, April 2010]]
The Utah Lake wetland ecosystem is an important breeding area and stopover for migratory birds in the Pacific Flyway. Today, about 226 species of birds use the lake as their permanent home or as a stopover on their migration. The Utah Lake Wetland Preserve has been established at the south end of Utah Lake. It contains two units, one at Goshen bay with more than {{convert|21750|acre|km2}} of land preserved, and another unit at Benjamin Slough.<ref>{{Citation | url=http://www.mitigationcommission.gov/wetlands/wetlands_ulwp.html | title=Utah Lake Wetlands Preserve | publisher=Utah Reclamation Mitigation Conservation Commission | access-date=April 9, 2010}}</ref>  Birds seen at Utah Lake include [[sandhill crane]], [[double-crested cormorant]], [[great horned owl]], [[turkey vulture]], [[golden eagle]], [[cinnamon teal]] duck, and [[mallard duck]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Utah_Lake_Comprehensive_Management_Plan|2005|pp=77–78}}</ref>