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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The gentle warmth of the early morning sand comforts a young Loggerhead emerging from the nest, allowing the baby to rest and assess it's environment. At any give

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Loggerhead sea turtle tracks on the beach. You can tell the direction the turtle is traveling by which way the head of the triangle is pointing. If the tip is poi

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Image title: Baby loggerhead turtles under red light photo
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's hatchling season! The babies are emerging and ready to tackle the many challenges that come their way! This little Loggerhead is the first one out of the nest

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August 12, 2010 - Dauphin Island, Alabama. Loggerhead turtle hatchlings rest in a cooler before being transported to the eastern shore of Florida. The turtles hatched from a nest that was scheduled t

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Entrance tracks of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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Image title: Loggerhead turtle eggs
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Turtle Fishery
Diving for loggerhead turtle, Morehead City, North Carolina

Subject: Turtle fisheries
Geographic Subject: United States--North Carolina--Morehead City
Tag: Reptiles

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A rescued baby loggerhead sea turtle waves hello to the camera. This baby was uncovered in a nest at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Keith Fuller for USFWS.

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
See how well Loggerheads camouflage with the wrack line on the beach? This mama just finished laying her nest and is now covering it from predators such as wild h

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though the initial waves have washed the carapace clean, this female loggerhead is on her way out into the Atlantic Ocean to mate again. She weighs close to

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
The mother Loggerhead cries salt water tears as she lays her eggs in the white sands on Blackbeard Island. She will never again return to check on her eggs, but m

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
She's crawled. She's dug. She's laid. She's covered. Now she returns to the warm Atlantic waters to breed again so she can lay more nests. A Loggerhead typically

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Loggerhead Shrike photographed in the Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge

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May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS

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JIM WALTERS, NATURALIST FOR EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK STUDIES NESTING HABITS OF LOGGERHEAD TURTLES

Une magnifique tortue nageant paisiblement dans un des bassins du "Georgia Aquarium" d'Atanta.

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JIM WALTER, NATURALIST WITH EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK COUNTS LOGGERHEAD TURTLE EGGS AND RE-SETS THE NEST

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Are we there yet?

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Lawrence Lawson, a 154-foot Fast Response Cutter based out of Cape May, New Jersey, along with members of the Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institu

View from the Loggerheads, John Ingleby, 1796

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Getting closer!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

A turtle being cared for at the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, Florida.
(WT-shared) Gamweb 06:00, 6 August 2008 (EDT).

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Chutes and ladders on the beach. This baby is doing great!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Taking a break after a long crawl!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Long way to go...

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Hard to find in the mixed texture of the wet sand.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
The world is sooooo big!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Climbing all the ripples and touching wet sand for the first time!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
See how faint the trail is that he leaves behind?

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
One mountain of dead, dry marsh grass down and oh so many more to go!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Closeup of a hatchling sliding over the ripples of a tide pool. This is his first comparison to the waves that await him.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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From the My Public Lands Magazine, Spring 2015: Turning the Tides
The 'Call of the Seas' draws people, sea turtles and beach mice.
story by Shayne Banks, BLM Eastern States

Read the magazine: on.doi

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Logger-head Turtle from The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Climbing over the wrack and balancing on narrow, hollowed shoots is a difficult task for new turtles. They trudge on as if they do not mind the hindrance.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Our perspective of the turtle's voyage.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The turtle leaves behind tiny scratches in the sand as it wobbles its way to the sea.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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This nest was found and marked by volunteers patrolling Carolina Beach in North Carolina. On August 7, a crowd gathered at an adjacent nest that was expected to hatch that night but it didn't. Whil

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Good morning! The hatchlings use the limited space in the "neck" of the lighbulb shaped nest and each others' backs to squeeze and climb out of the chamber.

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Piscium, serpentum, insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalum nec non plantarum quarundam imagines :quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolinae Floridae et Bahamens

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's a long haul, but every step is invaluable to the hatchling's survival. The hatchlings imprint the beach as they walk using the magnetic field to return 35 yea

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Resting in the shade before stretching his flippers, this baby needs to be alert to bypass all of the obstacles that await him on his journey to adulthood.

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Loggerhead Turtle Hatchling (Caretta Caretta)

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The spikes on the turtle's carapace or shell will eventually smooth out as the scutes, little "patches", grow over time.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though most nests hatch at night to avoid mammalian predators, these little guys seem to camouflage well enough in the wrack line. Nevertheless, this place is

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Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta Caretta)

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Contemplating his next move. He is so tiny compared to the little holes in the sand and the fine lines left by the last waves.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Beach birth birthday

July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Baby sea turtles make their way to the sea, leaving behind a super highway in the sand. Not all babies head the same direction. Some often wander back into the du

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Beach birth birthday

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
Wind them up and watch them go! Their "wind up" comes from their own yolks they absorb to power them with enough energy for the next 48 hours. They will need every las

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This hatchling has already made it farther in life than a lot of his siblings and peers. His egg developed successfully without mutations. He has overcome the thre

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
This dawn nester on Blackbeard Island lays her eggs in the sand after "body pitting" and digging an inverted light bulb shaped nest. "Body pitting" is when the fe

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Loggerhead Shrike

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John White - Loggerhead turtle; seen from above, head to left, 1906,0509.1.70, John White

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Loggerhead sea turtle making its way to the ocean

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Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings making their way to the ocean

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Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings make their way to the ocean

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Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike

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Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead hatchling release Saturday evening at Ramp 68

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Four fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead shrike on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

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Loggerhead nest found 0.52 miles north of R32 on 06-01-2021

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Releasing Loggerhead hatchings that were found during nest excavations on Ocracoke Island

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Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest with hatchling tracks left after the nest boiled

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MNMS -- Joe Hoyt With Rehabbed Loggerhead

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest found on June 30, 2021 - 0.54 miles west of Ramp 49

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest 0.11 mi W of R48 laid on 6-10-21

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Loggerhead sea turtle false crawl, the female went as far as digging her egg chamber but then aborted the attempt for an unknown reason

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Loggerhead sea turtle tracks leading to and from the first nest of the 2021 sea turtle nesting season

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