Category Archives: turtles

Record high of sea turtle nests on Cape Hatteas beaches

Posted on July 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Now if we could just get those damn off-road cow boys and cowgirls off the barrier island beaches . . . Read about the sea turtle nesting survey here.

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Quote of the week

Posted on April 10, 2012 | Leave a comment
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush”
— Doug Larson

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Hdllo from terra firma, from an Eastern Painted Turtle

Posted on November 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

I photographed this turtle at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware six or so years ago.Image

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Some Loggerhead Turtles now listed ‘endangered’

Posted on September 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

This article from the Sonora Desert region, of all places, has the latest.

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Posted in Department of the Interior, Endangered Species Act, endangered/threatened species, turtles

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As we seek nature, we wall it out

Posted on August 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

Great NY Times column here by Diane Ackerman. Her prose brings to mind all of the times I rescued turtles from streets and highways, both in Virginia and Pennsylvania. And Vermont, too.

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Posted in forest fragmentation, fragmentation of wildlife habitat, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, road ecology, roadkill, roads, salamanders, sprawl, suburban sprawl, turtles

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Nebraska’s Turtle Lady ends career of conservation, saving reptiles, amphibians

Posted on June 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

The Lincoln, Neb., paper today carried this wonderful in-depth article of a woman who’s done a helluva lot over the years for turtle populations, and those of a few other critters, as well.

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Virginia’s first diamondback terrapin survey to start soon

Posted on May 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

I wish I could participate in this survey. Would be great fun as well as being a conservation mission.

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And this species of turtle is?

Posted on September 19, 2010 | 1 comment

This is a test. Had this been an actual . . . Found and photographed at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge,Del.Image

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Turtles and roads

Posted on June 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

DSC03797As I’ve written previously, the presence of a road in or near the habitat of terrestrial (and avian species, too) leads to mortality. The Minnesota Herpetological Society offers this series of fact sheets to help humans better understand the whys and wherefores behind the turtle they see attempting to cross a road. Sadly, my exercise walk path led me past a roadkill yellow-shafted flicker.

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$3.4 million turtle ”eco-passage” designed to protect animals and people

Posted on June 23, 2009 | Leave a comment

There are many other examples out there of safe highway crossings for wildlife. I recall hiking through one that goes under the Adirondack Northway (I-87) in New York. Here’s a great article about a culvert designed to assist migrating freshwater turtles in Florida.

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Posted in tortoises, turtles, wildlilfe migration corridors

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