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Category: NRID	Photo Title: "First Light"	FOMA: Fort Macon State Park
File Name: loggerhead hatchling first light.jpg [pid 41254]	Original File Size: 3072 x 2304 pixels	Google Map Google Earth
Photographer: R. Newman	Date photo taken: 2018-07-28
Group: REPTILE	Order: TESTUDINES	Family: CHELONIIDAE
SciName: Caretta caretta	ComName: Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Comment: Hatchling breaking through to the surface.

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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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