Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

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Program Description

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation ProgramThe Georgia Department of Natural Resources is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of Georgia, USA. Georgia DNR's Sea Turtle Conservation Program has several components including management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically, cooperators locate and protect sea turtle nests (~150 km of coastline), document strandings, perform necropsies on dead strandings, work with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center to provide rehablitation for live strandings, conduct research, provide technical expertise on anthropogenic activities that have the potential to impact sea turtles (i.e., nourishment, dredging), and conduct education and outreach activities.
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Summary What does this mean Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 464 (11.2%)
Unique Females: 256 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 4125 (4004)
  In Situ: 3460
  Relocated: 665 (16.1%)
  Incubating: 2853
  Emerged: 130
  Inventoried: 600
  Lost: 434 (10.5%)
  Unknown: 114
  Excluded: 7
False Crawls: 3686

First Nest: St. Catherines (Loggerhead) 2026-05-05
First Emergence: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2026-07-07

Last Nest: Ossabaw (Loggerhead) 2026-07-29
Last Emergence: St. Catherines (Loggerhead) 2026-07-29

Estimated Eggs to Date: 145486
  Eggs Lost: 25880 (17.7%)
  Hatched Eggs: 48585
  Emerged Hatchlings: 43964
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 57.7 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 113.4 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 41.5%
Mean Emergence Success: 37.8%
Program Nest Success: 13.8%
Program Beach Success: 52.8%
Significant Nest Losses
Egg Status Egg Losses
Nests Species
SpeciesNestsHS%ES%
Loggerhead408041.737.9
Green Turtle500
Kemp's Ridley400
Unknown3631.430.4

Monthly Beach Report

Beach???MayJunJulOverall
NFCNFCNFCNFCNFCHS%ES%R%
Blackbeard6086101190321103104385 526 51.9 48.1 8.8
Cumberland4302632015905183321831228 902 22 21 0.7
Jekyll205466901045670202 240 78 72.2 29.2
Little Cumberland0029304861191796 108 44.5 39.7 70.8
Little St. Simons205044901075869199 220 80 76.8 27.1
Little Tybee100045075 12 0 0 20
Ossabaw180173110384308192164767 582 38.7 35.1 6.3
Sapelo205931106875020215 138 18 16.2 47.4
Sea Island10291445193825113 58 71.2 61.2 34.5
St. Catherines5090116256239122137473 492 40.1 36 27
St. Simons00321583521 15 60.3 54.1 38
Tybee Island001811231011652 27 79.9 75.5 40.3
Wassaw2090721852129282369 366 70.2 58.5 25.2
Total8209447982026199910768894125368641.537.816.1

Species Beach Report

BeachUnknownLoggerheadGreen TurtleKemp's RidleyTotal
Blackbeard538000385
Cumberland241196531228
Egg Island00000
Jekyll020200202
Little Cumberland0960096
Little St. Simons119800199
Little Tybee14005
Ossabaw276401767
Raccoon Key00000
Sapelo321200215
Sea Island011300113
St. Catherines047300473
St. Simons0210021
Tybee Island0520052
Wassaw036900369
Williamson00000
Total364080544125