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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

Nests

No Data

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: 2262 (97.8%)
Unique Females: 700 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 2313 (2286)
  In Situ: 1327
  Relocated: 980 (42.3%)
  Inventoried: 2213
  Lost: 78 (3.3%)
  Unknown: 16
  Excluded: 5
False Crawls: 2299

First Nest: Wassaw (Loggerhead) 2013-05-14
First Emergence: Wassaw (Loggerhead) 2013-07-15

Last Nest: Cumberland (Green Turtle) 2013-08-27
Last Emergence: Jekyll (Loggerhead) 2013-10-27

Estimated Eggs to Date: 243542
  Eggs Lost: 6716 (2.7%)
  Hatched Eggs: 165089
  Emerged Hatchlings: 156188
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 58.4 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 113.7 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 66.1%
Mean Emergence Success: 62.5%
Program Nest Success: 88.5%
Program Beach Success: 50.1%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	2289	66.1	62.4
Green Turtle	18	69	67

Monthly Beach Report

Beach	???		May		Jun		Jul		Aug		Sep		Overall
Beach	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	HS%	ES%	R%
Blackbeard	13	0	27	38	132	219	104	150	14	11	0	0	284	418	62.3	57.7	42.9
Cumberland	0	0	54	23	256	142	219	95	32	8	0	0	561	268	75.8	73.6	41.3
Egg Island	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	n/a	n/a	0
Jekyll	1	0	18	32	89	213	62	110	4	2	0	0	174	357	56	50.5	5.1
Little Cumberland	3	0	5	5	32	49	20	26	2	1	0	0	62	81	79.2	74.6	27.4
Little St. Simons	3	0	13	13	62	79	41	37	3	4	4	0	123	133	68.1	64.7	52.8
Little Tybee	0	0	3	0	11	7	7	4	0	0	0	0	21	11	73.3	69.2	33.3
Ossabaw	9	0	41	31	165	177	143	110	6	5	0	0	363	323	63	59.6	28.6
Sapelo	1	0	17	15	83	101	60	71	8	4	0	0	169	191	50.8	48.7	49.1
Sea Island	1	0	12	11	39	37	34	23	1	4	1	0	87	75	58.8	52.8	70.1
St. Catherines	15	0	19	22	81	143	74	51	4	6	0	0	192	222	69.1	67.5	76
St. Simons	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	5	5	74.5	74.1	40
Tybee Island	0	0	2	0	9	3	9	3	1	0	0	0	21	6	69.4	64.7	57.1
Wassaw	1	0	16	11	128	95	96	92	10	8	0	0	250	206	66.4	59.5	48.8
Williamson	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Total	47	0	227	202	1090	1270	872	774	85	53	5	0	2313	2299	66.1	62.5	42.3

Species Beach Report

Beach	Loggerhead	Green Turtle	Total
Blackbeard	284	0	284
Cumberland	547	14	561
Egg Island	0	0	0
Jekyll	174	0	174
Little Cumberland	62	0	62
Little St. Simons	117	2	119
Little Tybee	20	0	20
Ossabaw	363	0	363
Raccoon Key	0	0	0
Sapelo	169	0	169
Sea Island	85	1	86
St. Catherines	192	0	192
St. Simons	5	0	5
Tybee Island	21	0	21
Wassaw	249	1	250
Williamson	1	0	1
Total	2289	18	2307