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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Florida

Nests

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11-100

101-1000

1000+

Program Description

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Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 11 (1.5%)
Unique Females: 10 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 710 (694)
  In Situ: 707
  Relocated: 3 (0.4%)
  Incubating: 379
  Emerged: 12
  Inventoried: 304
  Unknown: 15
  Excluded: 1
False Crawls: 500

First Nest: Mickler's Landing (Loggerhead) 2026-04-26
First Emergence: Mickler's Landing (Loggerhead) 2026-06-30

Last Nest: Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches (Loggerhead) 2026-08-09
Last Emergence: Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (Loggerhead) 2026-08-10

Estimated Eggs to Date: 34187
  Eggs Lost: 604 (1.7%)
  Hatched Eggs: 28603
  Emerged Hatchlings: 27704
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 53.1 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 117.3 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 84.4%
Mean Emergence Success: 81.8%
Program Nest Success: 42.5%
Program Beach Success: 58.6%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	691	84.4	81.7
Green Turtle	12	96.7	95.9
Leatherback	7	78.1	78.1

Monthly Beach Report

Beach	???		Apr		May		Jun		Jul		Aug		Overall
Beach	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	HS%	ES%	R%
Amelia Island (Nassau)	0	0	0	0	0	0	61	0	0	0	0	0	61	0	n/a	n/a	0
Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches (Duval)	3	0	0	0	26	10	57	39	32	20	4	1	122	70	84.3	82.1	0.8
Guana River South (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0	39	33	68	61	42	33	7	0	156	127	83.5	80.8	0
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0	60	25	83	63	69	76	6	3	218	167	86.1	83.6	0
Mickler's Landing (St. Johns)	0	0	1	1	43	18	60	59	43	49	6	9	153	136	83	80.1	1.3
Total	3	0	1	1	168	86	329	222	186	178	23	13	710	500	84.4	81.8	0.4

Species Beach Report

Beach	Loggerhead	Green Turtle	Leatherback	Total
Amelia Island (Nassau)	61	0	0	61
Amelia Island State Park (Nassau)	0	0	0	0
Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches (Duval)	119	1	2	122
Boca Raton (Palm Beach)	0	0	0	0
Captiva Island (Lee)	0	0	0	0
Crescent Beach (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Fort Matanzas NM Beach (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Fort Pickens (Escambia)	0	0	0	0
Guana River South (St. Johns)	153	2	1	156
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	210	7	1	218
Hanna Park (Duval)	0	0	0	0
Huguenot Memorial Park (Duval)	0	0	0	0
Lido (Sarasota)	0	0	0	0
Longboat Key (Sarasota)	0	0	0	0
Mayport Naval Station (Duval)	0	0	0	0
Mickler's Landing (St. Johns)	148	2	3	153
Perdido Key (Escambia)	0	0	0	0
Ponte Vedra Beach (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Ponte Vedra South (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Sanibel Island East (Lee)	0	0	0	0
Sanibel Island West (Lee)	0	0	0	0
Santa Rosa (Escambia)	0	0	0	0
Siesta Key (Sarasota)	0	0	0	0
St. Augustine Beach (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
St. George Island (Franklin)	0	0	0	0
Summer Haven (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Talbot Islands State Park (Duval)	0	0	0	0
Venice (Sarasota)	0	0	0	0
Vilano (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0
Total	691	12	7	710