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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: 723 (689)
  In Situ: 720
  Relocated: 3 (0.4%)
  Incubating: 112
  Emerged: 4
  Inventoried: 574
  Unknown: 33
  Excluded: 1
False Crawls: 501

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

Last Nest: Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (Green Turtle) 2026-08-20
Last Emergence: Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (Loggerhead) 2026-09-23

Estimated Eggs to Date: 61298
  Eggs Lost: 738 (1.2%)
  Hatched Eggs: 50710
  Emerged Hatchlings: 49195
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 52.7 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 117.3 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 74.6%
Mean Emergence Success: 72.4%
Program Nest Success: 78.1%
Program Beach Success: 59%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	697	74.9	72.7
Green Turtle	19	77.2	75.7
Leatherback	7	39	37.7

Monthly Beach Report

Beach	???		Apr		May		Jun		Jul		Aug		Sep		Overall
Beach	N	FC	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	0	0	61	0	0	0	0
Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches (Duval)	2	0	0	0	26	10	57	39	32	20	5	1	0	2	122	72	80.7	78.2	0.8
Guana River South (St. Johns)	0	0	0	0	39	33	68	61	42	33	10	2	0	0	159	129	82	79.5	0
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	1	0	0	0	60	25	83	63	71	74	12	2	0	0	227	164	85.8	83.7	0
Mickler's Landing (St. Johns)	0	0	1	1	43	18	60	59	43	49	7	9	0	0	154	136	79.7	76.9	1.2
Total	3	0	1	1	168	86	329	222	188	176	34	14	0	2	723	501	74.6	72.4	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)	154	4	1	159
Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR (St. Johns)	215	11	1	227
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	697	19	7	723