134 Free Photos of Turtle Nest

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Sea turtle nest excavation-1

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Island turtle track to nest

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Sea Turtle nest excavation-1

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Loggerhead turtle nest

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Green Sea Turtle Nesting

Loggerhead turtle builds her nest

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Loggerhead turtle builds her nest-2

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Mare nest sea turtle

Carry mare nest

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Mare nest notice

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Excavation mare nest

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Dead mare nest

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Mare nest sand

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Dead mare nest

Labor mare nest

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Caretta Caretta mare nest

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Labor mare nest

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Caretta Caretta mare nest

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Caretta Caretta mare nest

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Biologist excavation mare

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Clock excavation group

Effort important mare

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Turtles nest beach

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Sand dune turtle nest marked

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Protection of species nest count

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US Navy 090602-N-0486G-003 The first endangered sea turtle nest of 2009 sits atop a dune at the north point of the Naval Station Mayport beach

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US Navy 090602-N-0486G-005 The first endangered sea turtle nest of 2009 sits atop a dune at the north point of the Naval Station Mayport beach

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2010 Kemp's ridley sea turtle project at Padre Island National Seashore

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Kemp's Ridley sea turtle nesting.

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Reptile nesting female

A nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle returns to the water after nesting at the 34.5 mile marker at Padre Island National Seashore on 8 June 2011

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2010 Kemp's ridley sea turtle project at Padre Island National Seashore

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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Environmental journalist Mike Di Paola photographs excavation of a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at Fort Pickens, Gulf Islands National Seashore. Credit: Cather

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Image title: Loggerhead turtle builds her nest caretta caretta
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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Biologists excavate 89 eggs from a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at the National Park Service's Gulf Islands Naional Seashore near Fort Pickens. Credit: Catherin

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Image title: Loggerhead turtle nest Caretta caretta
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Female Wood Turtles Testing Experimental Nest Box at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Dr. Donna Shaver documents a nesting Kemp's rildey sea turtle at PAIS in May 2011

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The Upper Midwest Riverine Turtle Habitat Improvement project was initially funded in 2014 by the Service's State Wildlife Grant Program to improve nesting success, reduce adult turtle mortality, impr

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An algae-covered snapping turtle ignores a nosy photographer while digging a nest at Waubay NWR.

Credit: Laura Hubers / USFWS

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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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Loggerhead sea turtles begin life out of their nest about the size of a silver dollar. If they survive (most do not) they can grow to be the largest hard-shelled turtles in the world. When you're on

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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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The Upper Midwest Riverine Turtle Habitat Improvement project was initially funded in 2014 thru the Service's State Wildlife Grant Program. This research project improved nesting success, reduced adul

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Image title: A loggerhead turtle lays her eggs in a nest on the beach
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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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Image title: Loggerhead turtle lays her eggs in a nest on the beach
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Image title: Loggerhead turtle eggs caretta caretta
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Barnacles on the back of a Loggerhead sea turtle covering her nest. Barnacles and other organisms that grow on top of the turtle's carapace are called "epibiota".

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

July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Lorna Patrick, Deputy Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Panama City, Florida, Ecological Services and Fisheries Resources Office, (right) and

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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 24, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
It's all downhill from here as this juvenile turtle maneuvers over the cage that his doting biological interns placed over his nest to protect them from predators

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

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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 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 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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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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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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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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Adult Dermochelys coriacea, Leatherback Sea Turtle.
In Las Baulas National Marine Park, Costa Rica.

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First sea turtle nest of 2023 season

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

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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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Loggerhead sea turtle nest site.

Looking for a nest site

The remains of a raided turtle nest

The remains of a raided turtle nest

Sunrise over our most recent sea turtle nest - this green sea turtle nest is just north of Ramp 70

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Red light photo of a sea turtle nest boil in progress, year 2016

Nesting Snapping Turtle

Park Staff Conducting Sea Turtle Nest Research

Green sea turtle finishing up nesting on the morning of June 17, 2021 at Ramp 44.

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest site found north of Ramp 32 on June 2

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

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Green sea turtle actively covering its nesting site at Ramp 44 on June 17, 2021

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Female painted turtle

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

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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

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A green sea turtle returns to the ocean after covering her nest on Bodie Island (north of Ramp 4)

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

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All clear?

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

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Wood Turtle artificial nest mound with nesting female and protected nest - Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Ocracoke's first green sea turtle nest, found north of Ramp 67

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle crawling back into the ocean after nesting along the sandbag dunes on Ocracoke

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Really good shot of how camouflaged a nesting sea turtle can look when digging 07-26-19

Wood Turtle artificial nest mound - GSNWR - by CPO

Sea Turtle Nest Survey in Florida Bay

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