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Loggerhead turtle

Caretta caretta

Photo by SaraChilders
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Large, brown marine turtle with characteristic "logger-head". Crawl showed symmetrical flipper strokes with no tail drag.

Habitat:

Ocean

Notes:

Beautiful sexually mature female came in to drop her eggs near Caneveral national seashore at around 2145 on 14Jul13

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Comments (1)
TessRoss
this was a poor decision. no photo is worth endangering those eggs. it is common knowledge not to shine light pn a nesting turtle

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PublishedJuly 15, 2013

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