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Not only leatherback turtles get tagged in the rear flippers. Some hardshelled sea turtles also get them, particularly juveniles and subadults that are incidentally caught and released. Some of these turtles will inevitably start to nest someday, so for those of you patrolling nesting beaches at night, you might want to check the rear flippers for tags (although this is not as easy as checking front flippers). All stranded turtles should also be checked for rear flipper tags. This applies to everyone in the Atlantic working on turtles, and perhaps elsewhere, as juvenile turtles can make transoceanic and transequatorial migrations