Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Baby red-eared slider turtles are brightly colored. With bold patterns on their yellowish under shells. Which serve as a warning to predators. the bright colors of skunks and other animals. They signal that the animals will spray nasty chemicals. In contrast, the turtle's colors warn largemouth bass. that the baby turtle will actively defend itself. When a bass gulps down a turtle, the feisty baby laws and bites. Forcing the bass to spit it out. To avoid a similar painful experience. The bass will avoid other baby red-eared slider turtles. The turtle loses its bright colors as it grows too big. For a Bass's afternoon

Now, as most may know sea turtles are both marine and land animals depending on what stage of life they are in. Which means that they need to be able to go on land during certain stages of their lives. One of the main reasons why a sea turtle will go on to land is to lay their eggs. Within the last few years this has become harder and harder for the already endangered species. It

Sea turtles don’t have it easy from the start. It is estimated that somewhere between a mere 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 survive to adulthood (accurate estimates are challenging to obtain). These turtles face tribulations beginning in the nest, such as humans disturbing eggs and predators attacking baby turtles on their march to the ocean. Humans often don’t realize the detrimental effects they can have on turtles. For example, artificial lighting along beaches can cause a mother sea turtle to lay eggs in a less than optimal spot, or cause a hatchling to crawl away from the ocean (they use the moonlight to guide themselves towards the water).

The Loggerhead is an endangered species. Between 1997 and 2007, around 70% of their east coast yearly nesting population was lost as a result of shrimp trawling and development in nesting areas. The Loggerhead Turtles habitat in Gnaraloo is vital for their survival. The female loggerhead usually digs her nest at night. She digs her nest with her back flippers, about 18 inches beneath the surface. When she lays her eggs they fall to the bottom of the nest and pack together after she lays the eggs she tops off the nest with sand. The hatchlings will incubate for 60- 80 days. Loggerheads nest on ocean beaches, they lay their eggs, immediately after hatchlings emerge from the nest, they begin a period of frenzied activity. Hatchlings are primarily

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists Tomo Eguchi and Jeff Seminoff made oceanic history by releasing the first juvenile loggerhead sea turtle into the West Coast of the United States, with a transmitter attacked to its body. This exploration is going to aid scientists in getting a better understanding of what type of habitats juvenile loggerheads live in prior to participating in the years prior to participation in migration. Scientists are hopping to gain a better understanding of where juvenile loggerheads live for the sake protecting their habitats from fisherman. As of now, scientists have predicted that juvenile loggerheads tend to inhabit the same environments as swordfish. This is extremely dangerous to the lives of sea turtles considering that swordfish are heavily hunted by many fishermen. Therefore, if scientist theories are correct, the loggerheads are living in very dangerous environments. This exploration was initiated when a Coast Guard vessel found the loggerhead and took it to the Aquarium of the Pacific, where it would receive medical attention.

Sea turtles face a lot of life or death obstacles from the second they are born. Even

Sea turtles can be very interesting. There are seven different kinds of sea turtles. Three of them are the Loggerhead, Leatherback, and the Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles. The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle Is endangered along with another 3 species of turtles. They are also th the smallest of all the sea turtles. They only measure about 2 feet in height and only weigh about 100 pounds as adults. When they are born they are almost black and are only about 2 inches big. They reach maturity at about 12 years old. The Leatherback is the largest living turtle. The reach about 3.9-6.2 ft and weigh around 441-1116 pounds.The have dark shells with lighter spots. They are called leatherbacks because their shells are leather and not as hard as other sea turtles. A Loggerhead turtles grown to be about 350 pounds. They are called loggerhead turtles because they have big heads and very

The main purpose of this study is to provide more information about the Flat-back turtle’s primary route to the conservation team so that they can further enhance their ongoing methods. Along with this, the researchers are also trying to identify the most highly used areas outside the current Reserve Network. Flat-back turtles come under the category of ‘vulnerable’ species; hence it is important to look into their accidental death rate. Protective measures are applied as long as these turtles lay within the Reserve Network; therefore, threats of mortality in the unguarded waters outside the Reserve can be high due to fishery bycatch or collisions with

They build their nests are on the ground using moss and grass.. After the female is fertilized the egg grows inside her. When the egg is laid the male and female take turns sitting on the egg for two months. The chicks stay under the constant protection of their nesting parents for the first three or four weeks of their life. Later when they are stronger, they are left alone for days or weeks at a time while their parents go to get them food. The parents need to pre digest the food because the weight of the undigested food would make them so heavy they would not be able to travel.. The chicks grow so much while there parents are away that their parents don’t recognize them by sight when they return so the must rely on calls and their sense of smell to identify their own chicks and feed them their predigested oily food. (oceanwide

Their nest sites are among marsh vegetation in shallow water (sometimes up to 3 feet deep), sometimes on dry ground close to water. The nest (built by both sexes) is a mound of plant material pulled up from around the site; it may be built up from bottom or may be floating, anchored to standing plants. Females typically lay two eggs, which both parents incubate. Males take responsibility for defending the

They will use twigs and sticks to build their cupped platform nest. The female will build a nest in trees or on the ground. She prefers thick bushes. She will lay 2 eggs, and she will sit on them during the day until they hatch. The babies will fledge in 16 days.

Green Sea turtles are very small when they are born, but as they mature, they become the largest hard-shelled sea turtles. These turtles do are not named for having a green shell, but for having green skin. Their shell is a brown or olive color. The organisms that make up this species are usually herbivores, but are omnivores while they are young. They eat seaweed and other plants or algae found in the ocean. Green sea turtles have serrated jagged edged jaws, which they have adapted for a vegetarian diet made up of eating of seagrasses, plants, and algae found in the ocean. When the turtles are not born yet, they are in a nesting habitat. The mother buries her eggs in the sand along a beach. Once they hatch, they head for the ocean and live ocean habitats. The ocean is extremely salty, and can be dangerous to species who are have not adapted to that environment. Green sea turtles are unique to the ocean environment because they “...have a salt

There are many species worldwide whose habitats are threatened daily by loss of habitat due to global warming, pollution, and the spread of human populations that may need to undergo experimental management in order to figure out a way to keep the species’ populations in a healthy status as well as protect fragile ecosystems. One such species, the Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii), was placed on the threatened list in New York state due to the large loss of habitat and low population numbers especially in the female gender of the species. The article Experimental Management of Nesting Habitat for the Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) written by Zara Dowling, Tanessa Hartwig, Erik Kiviat and Felicia Keesing in 2010 in the Journal Ecological Restoration, discusses an experimental management plan for the Blanding’s turtle that has proven beneficial to that turtle population.

Observing the decline in Blanding’s Turtle populations, researchers have tried to better understand the factors threatening the species, through investigating its reproductive ability and migration patterns. According to a recent study focused on sexual maturity of Blanding’s Turtle, low reproductive rate and delayed sexual maturity of the long-lived organism severely constraints its population to respond to chronic disturbances.

~ The next two months I will reecord what they eat an where they lay their eggs.