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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

Nests

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1-10

11-100

101-1000

1000+

Program Description

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

The 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.

The data presented here should be considered preliminary in nature. All data, figures and maps on this website remain copyright of the project coordinators and may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.

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Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 2209 (98.4%)
Unique Females: 750 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 2245 (2214)
  In Situ: 1178
  Relocated: 1066 (47.4%)
  Incubating: 2
  Inventoried: 2126
  Lost: 106 (4.7%)
  Unknown: 16
  Excluded: 14
False Crawls: 3784

First Nest: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2012-04-25
First Emergence: Sea Island (Loggerhead) 2012-07-08

Last Nest: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2012-08-23
Last Emergence: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2012-10-29

Estimated Eggs to Date: 226328
  Eggs Lost: 6759 (2.9%)
  Hatched Eggs: 156877
  Emerged Hatchlings: 144950
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 59.5 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 106.8 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 66.9%
Mean Emergence Success: 61.9%
Program Nest Success: 84.5%
Program Beach Success: 37.2%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	2241	66.9	61.9
Green Turtle	1	44.6	43
Leatherback	1	70.1	67.8
Kemp's Ridley	1	0	0

Monthly Beach Report

Beach	???		Mar		Apr		May		Jun		Jul		Aug		Sep		Oct		Overall
Beach	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	HS%	ES%	R%
Blackbeard	18	0	0	0	0	0	68	131	110	344	101	200	13	9	0	0	0	0	306	684	63.6	58.7	61.7
Cumberland	44	0	0	0	2	3	140	155	280	313	222	115	20	6	1	0	0	0	700	592	73.5	71.7	40.8
Jekyll	3	0	0	0	0	0	52	134	84	137	56	83	2	2	0	0	0	0	197	356	65.6	61.7	46.7
Little Cumberland	4	0	0	0	0	0	17	30	29	46	33	11	1	0	2	0	0	0	83	87	76.2	72.3	77.1
Little St. Simons	2	0	0	0	0	0	23	44	39	80	50	34	2	0	0	0	0	0	116	158	73.8	70.1	60.3
Little Tybee	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	4	8	9	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	19	59.6	57.1	46.6
Ossabaw	11	0	0	0	0	2	46	133	100	178	67	100	5	1	1	0	0	0	226	414	50.5	47	1.3
Sapelo	6	0	0	0	0	0	36	70	55	77	49	42	2	1	0	0	0	0	147	190	48.4	46	45.5
Sea Island	1	0	0	0	0	0	23	50	39	39	35	33	4	4	0	0	0	0	102	126	62.5	60.7	42.1
St. Catherines	28	0	0	1	0	0	41	158	65	344	46	194	9	7	7	0	1	0	185	704	68.6	51.4	68.6
St. Simons	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	67.9	64.3	66.6
Tybee Island	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	7	18	10	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	23	33	83.2	76.8	78.2
Wassaw	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	119	55	218	50	68	0	10	0	0	0	0	139	415	76.5	60.2	67.6
Total	118	0	0	1	2	5	489	1034	870	1807	728	897	59	40	11	0	1	0	2245	3784	66.9	61.9	47.4

Species Beach Report

Beach	Loggerhead	Green Turtle	Leatherback	Kemp's Ridley	Total
Blackbeard	305	1	0	0	306
Cumberland	699	0	1	0	700
Egg Island	0	0	0	0	0
Jekyll	197	0	0	0	197
Little Cumberland	83	0	0	0	83
Little St. Simons	116	0	0	0	116
Little Tybee	15	0	0	0	15
Ossabaw	225	0	0	1	226
Raccoon Key	0	0	0	0	0
Sapelo	147	0	0	0	147
Sea Island	102	0	0	0	102
St. Catherines	185	0	0	0	185
St. Simons	6	0	0	0	6
Tybee Island	23	0	0	0	23
Wassaw	138	0	0	0	138
Williamson	0	0	0	0	0
Total	2241	1	1	1	2244