It's April in North Carolina, and we are starting to think about the beginning of our nesting season that begins in May. It's funny to think that in other places around the world, nesting beach fieldwork has already begun. For instance, I just heard word from Kelly Stewart who has started her fieldwork with nesting leatherbacks in Florida. She and her collaborators recently outfitted a leatherback with a fancy GPS satellite tag - check out the story and photos here. On Ascension Island, Brendan Godley tells me that the green turtle nesting season is well under way. It is the same for Suriname and French Guiana, where not only green turtles are nesting but the leatherbacks are starting to nest more frequently on the same beaches (there are five nesting leatherbacks in the photo above, although you might have to really hunt to see them all). And on the other side of the world, the turtle nesting seasons are ending or have recently ended. In Bahia, Brazil, hawksbill and loggerheads have pretty much finished their nesting, although hatchlings will still be produced from their nests for several more weeks.
Therefore, a carefully prepared travel itinerary could allow one to participate in nesting turtle fieldwork each month of the entire year.