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The green turtle is making a comeback in the Hawaiian Islands but is still on the endangered list. The females make their way to the French Shoal Islands to have their young which is an 800 mile journey. There they go ashore and dig a hole in the sand where they lay their eggs. After laying their eggs and covering them with sand they return to the Hawaiin Islands and repeat this process two or three years later.
Fred wanted to go underneath the fence, but couldn't, so husband pulled the fence up,so he could go where he needed to go.....see ya buddy!
Growing up in Florida, we always called these 'Streaked Head Turtles". Photo taken in the canal behind my house (Lake Pierce) Polk County, Florida.
Seen along the Illinois and Michigan Canal path, this painted turtle was hiding from us as we tried to photograph him.
Notice how the stripes on his head go right through his eye.
And his dirty mouth!!
A green sea turtle / honu (Chelonia mydas) at Midway Atoll in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
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Look at how tiny he is. Those aren't big rocks next to him, those are tiny pebbles. We saw him on our walk at Independence Grove.
A neighbor had a couple of these little turtle placed in his pond by one the neighborhood children - his pond is small and has goldfish, frogs and plants in it, the turtle seem to like their new home.
The Great Swamp refuge in New Jersey is host to multiple species of turtles, including the spotted, painted, box, and snapping turtles.
haven't been uploading as i have mocks & exams. here is a photo i took of a turtle during my visit to Bournemouth aquarium. i'm drawing it for my mock exam in art. turtles are amazing!
I was out for a walk in Lambton Woods and I heard a woman scream...
I ran up and the woman pointed to this snapping turtle crossing the walking path which she almost stepped on.
This guy was quite large and was crawling out of the woods back down to the river. Nothing could stop him! It was very to cool to watch him crawl over logs and plow through shrubs and tumble down some stairs. Those claws!
Notice the dog trying to sneak up on him (he was off the leash and was asking to get bit!).
Oriental, North Carolina, May 18, 2018, 8:06am: A box turtle about five inches long is strolling through the yard.
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles (honu), apparently uniquely among sea turtles, sometimes bask on the beach during the day. This is turtle L-2, HiwaHiwa, done basking at "Turtle Beach" (Laniakea, Oahu) and heading back out into the ocean.
(Pseudemys rubriventris); listed as a threatened species in Pennsylvania
With an adult size of 10 to 12 inches and weighing up to 10 pounds, the northern red-bellied turtle is larger than most freshwater turtles except the snapping turtle.
His shell appeared to be crusted with mud, and he does not have many of the usual markings on his head, just some stripes under his chin. Older red-bellied turtles will become "melanistic" (uniformly dark gray or black); also, males especially may be almost entirely black, but there is usually a trace of reddish lines on the medially flattened upper shell and yellowish head stripes. The tip of the upper jaw is notched with toothed cusps on each side. The lower shell ranges in color from coral-pink to red, with darker markings in the young.
In Pennsylvania, the threatened red-bellied turtle lives in the most developed and densely populated southeast corner of the state. This large, long-lived, colorful turtle lives in coastal streams, rivers and wetlands along the eastern seaboard, but nests on land, making survival difficult for eggs and hatchlings. The greatest threat to the turtles is the industrialization and pollution of their environment. The large, aquatic turtles need to have access to deep stream channels and wetlands, because young turtles eat lots of insects. The adults are nearly exclusively herbivorous and feed on a wide variety of aquatic plants.
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Come out of your shell. Cuaght him/her trying to cross the Paint Creek Trail in Lake Orion, Michigan.