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Western Pond Turtle

Clemmys marmorata

Photo by TomBecher
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

About 13 Western Pond Turtles live in a pair of local ponds. The park where the ponds are located placed the floating logs out for these turtles to bask on.

Habitat:

On basking log in local pond.

Notes:

Shot a few photos of this rare and threatened species.

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Comments (1)

And this guy would be cool to have in the Reptiles of the Pacific Northwest mission! We need more Oregonian turtles in there :)
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PublishedNovember 14, 2011

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