Gasparilla Island sea turtle update: Those babies are movin’ toward the Gulf!
July 21, 2017
By Marcy Shortuse
■ BY SUE ERWIN We’re three months into nesting season, and many baby sea turtles have been making their way to the shoreline. The latest numbers are: 495 loggerhead (Caretta caretta) nests, and six green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests. There have been 571 documented false crawls. The false crawls are often a result of […]
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