| Category: NRID VISITOR PROTECTION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PEOPLE|GROUPS I_E | Photo Title: | FOMA: Fort Macon State Park |
| File Name: turtle-nest.jpg [pid 35205] | Original File Size: 3072 x 2304 pixels | Google Map |
| Photographer: R. Newman | Date photo taken: 2015-07-15 | |
| Group: REPTILE | Order: TESTUDINES | Family: CHELONIIDAE |
| SciName: Caretta caretta | ComName: Loggerhead Sea Turtle | Also available in sizes up to 3072 x 2304
| Comment: Ranger Ben Fleming relocating a Loggerhead nest from an area known to be susceptible to erosion. Participants in the Park's JR Ranger Program assisting and being educated about the life history of the Loggerhead turtle by Ranger Flemming. |
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 Photo 1 FOFI |  Photo 2 FOFI |  Photo 3 FOFI |  Photo 4 FOFI |
 Photo 5 FOFI |  Photo 6 FOMA Turtle Crawl and Body Pit |  Photo 7 FOMA |  Photo 8 FOMA Tracks show a non-nesting emergence from a female Loggerhead. This is known as a "False Crawl". |
 Photo 9 FOMA Closeup of crawl. |  Photo 10 FOMA Crawl and Body Pit with nest. |  Photo 11 FOMA Body Pit with nest |  Photo 12 FOMA Tracks from hatchlings emergence from nest. Protected wire screening is visible over nest cavity. The wire helps prevent most mammalian disturbance to the nest and hatchling emergence is not affected if the proper wire and methods are used. |
 Photo 13 FOMA First glimpse of daylight. |  Photo 14 FOMA Head of Hatchling |  Photo 15 FOMA Hatchling |  Photo 16 FOMA Loggerhead Eggs - Egg on right typical size. Egg on left smaller than normal. |
 Photo 17 FOMA Ranger John Fullwood relocating a nest from an area known to be susceptible to erosion. |  Photo 18 FOMA Turtle nest locations marked to protect from foot traffic |  Photo 19 FOMA Ranger Scott Crocket explaining the post-hatching nest excavation and analysis process to a park visitor. Analysis showed 150 eggs hatched out of 155 eggs. |  Photo 20 FOMA Nest predation from Red Fox |
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