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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Florida

Nests

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1-10

11-100

101-1000

1000+

Program Description

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Summary ^{What does this mean}

Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 11 (1.5%)
Unique Females: 10 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 714 (697)
  In Situ: 711
  Relocated: 3 (0.4%)
  Incubating: 350
  Emerged: 23
  Inventoried: 325
  Unknown: 16
  Excluded: 1
False Crawls: 502

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

Last Nest: Guana River South (Loggerhead) 2026-08-12
Last Emergence: Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches (Loggerhead) 2026-08-14

Estimated Eggs to Date: 36374
  Eggs Lost: 640 (1.7%)
  Hatched Eggs: 30406
  Emerged Hatchlings: 29491
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 52.9 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 117.3 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 84.3%
Mean Emergence Success: 81.8%
Program Nest Success: 45.2%
Program Beach Success: 58.7%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	693	84.2	81.7
Green Turtle	14	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	5	1	123	70	84.4	82.3	0.8
Guana River South (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0	39	33	68	61	42	33	8	2	157	129	83.4	80.7	0
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0	60	25	83	63	69	76	7	3	219	167	86.2	83.8	0
Mickler's Landing (St. Johns)	0	0	1	1	43	18	60	59	43	49	7	9	154	136	82.3	79.5	1.2
Total	3	0	1	1	168	86	329	222	186	178	27	15	714	502	84.3	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)	120	1	2	123
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)	154	2	1	157
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	210	8	1	219
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	3	3	154
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	693	14	7	714