Nesting mother

Another photo of the nesting green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) from the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, like I said in my previous photo these turtles eggs are extremely vulnerable to nest predation and poaching and infact this turtles eggs were poached before she had even made it back to the ocean.

 

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.

Done