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Loggerhead & Green Turtles & One Kemp's Ridley Nests on Sarasota's Barrier Islands so far this Year. Some Turtle Nests Are Just Begining to Hatch ( 54 to 60 days).

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Picture taken at night while the Loggerhead Turtle was laying her eggs on Manasota key.

She will usually lay about 110 eggs.

Cumulative Totals - 2010 from Mote Marine Laboratory & The Coastal Wildlife Club

  Loggerhead  Turtles      Green Turtles                     Kemp's Ridley

  Nests     False Crawls          Nests              False Crawls              Nests          False Crawls 

Longboat Key Manatee

74                     74                     0                          0                         0                   0                                               

Longboat Key Sarasota       

  77                      66                     0                      1                            0                 0

Lido Beach                           

 10                      23                     0                         0                         0                  0

Siesta Key                            

  89                     104                    0                         0                        0                 0

Casey Key                           

 377                    365                    1                         0                       0                  0

Venice                                

 124                    195                    1                         0                       0                    0

Manasota Key

991                  1531                    7                         2                      1                       0

  Totals 

1742                 2358                    9                        3                       1                       0

 

 

          

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