Datasets / Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring: End of Season Report - 2013


Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring: End of Season Report - 2013

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

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Creative Commons CCZero

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Description

The 2013 Loggerhead sea turtle nesting season resulted in 284 nests with 17,915 emerged hatchlings. Of the 284 nests, 162 57 remained in situ with 122 43 nests relocated above the mean high tide line. Only 13 nests were lost from various threats such as hog and raccoon predation and tide overwash. The mean hatch success rate was 62.3 with 19,315 hatched eggs. Single eggs were taken from 278 nests for DNA analysis. One leatherback sea turtle nested but the nest was unsuccessful.