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Nesting
A nesting green sea turtle(?) (Chelonia mydas) from the Nicoya peninsula in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica. Unfortunately she chose a bad place to nest, her eggs were poached before she even got a chance to return to the water.
EDIT: Turns out this is actually a olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)! Which is pretty exciting since then this is the first and so far only one of these I have seen. This is a wide ranging species and is found throughout much of the worlds oceans but population levels have dropped from historic levels.
Nesting
A nesting green sea turtle(?) (Chelonia mydas) from the Nicoya peninsula in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica. Unfortunately she chose a bad place to nest, her eggs were poached before she even got a chance to return to the water.
EDIT: Turns out this is actually a olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)! Which is pretty exciting since then this is the first and so far only one of these I have seen. This is a wide ranging species and is found throughout much of the worlds oceans but population levels have dropped from historic levels.