250 Free Photos of Loggerhead

animals loggerhead sea turtle reptiles caretta caretta united states fish and wildlife service southeast region blackbeard island caretta caretta (juvenile)wildlife bird loggerhead shrike

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This Loggerhead baby is taking his time to adjust to his new surroundings and strengthen his muscles before his long journey to the middle of the Atlantic. Once in

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

wildlife animals

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

Turtle Fishery
Diving for loggerhead turtle, Morehead City, North Carolina

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

reptiles animals

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.

www.fws.gov/caperomain/

reptiles animals

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

www.fws.gov/pelicanisland/

Image title: Loggerhead turtle eggs
Image from Public domain images website, http://www.public-domain-image.com/full-image/fauna-animals-public-domain-images-pictures/reptiles-and-amphibians-public-do

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

Loggerhead Shrike photographed in the Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Ocean animal sea turtle

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Reptile swimming young

Paris quadrifolia in seed

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

reptiles animals

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

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

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

underwater animals

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

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

reptiles animals

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

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

reptiles animals

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

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

reptiles animals

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

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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

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, GA
Long way to go...

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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.

Credit

reptiles animals

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

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

reptiles animals

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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.

Cred

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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.

Credit

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

Beach birth birthday

Beach birth birthday

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

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

reptiles animals

Loggerhead Shrike

loggerhead shrike shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

birdwatching bird

Loggerhead Shrike

birdwatching bird

Loggerhead Shrike

birdwatching bird

Loggerhead Shrike

GRNMS - loggerhead

loggerhead shrike

wildlife animals

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead sea turtle making its way to the ocean

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings making their way to the ocean

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings make their way to the ocean

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Loggerhead hatchling release Saturday evening at Ramp 68

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead shrike on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

seedskadee national wildlife refuge seedskadee nwr

Loggerhead shrike

united states bird

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

Four fledgling Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead-9577

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Loggerhead Shrike

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

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

sea turtle loggerhead

MNMS -- Joe Hoyt With Rehabbed Loggerhead

reptiles animals

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

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

loggerhead sea turtle sea turtle

Loggerhead Shrike

wildlife animals

Loggerhead Shrike

24. shrikes and vireos my backyard

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead sea turtle nest site.

Loggerhead shrike

A loggerhead sea turtle returns to the ocean after laying a nest north of Ramp 4 this week. 2nd nest on Bodie Island thus far

sea turtle loggerhead

Loggerhead Shrike in the Rain

A loggerhead sea turtle false crawl on South Point

A loggerhead hatchling setting off for the ocean in the early morning

FGBNMS Loggerhead Turtle

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead shrike

sonny bono salton sea national wildlife refuge

Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) on a snow-dusted Joshua tree

Loggerhead-Shrike-1may2020-RBLake

24. shrikes and vireos rio blanco lake

Loggerhead Sea Turtle

50 years of cites: the global treaty that protects wildlife

Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) on a snow-dusted Joshua tree

Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) on a snow-dusted Joshua tree

In the Shadow of Man (Loggerhead hatchling photo taken by Ben Ranelli)

101 - 200 of 250 Next page

/ 3