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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Sea Turtle Nesting History

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.

	Date	Beach	Activity	Matched By
1	2015-06-11	Little St. Simons	Nest	DNA
?	possible missed nest (25 day gap)
2	2015-07-06	Sea Island	Nest	DNA
3	2015-07-19	Sea Island	Nest	DNA
4	2017-00-00	Blackbeard	Undetected Nest (Wild Nest)	DNA
5	2017-05-18	Blackbeard	Nest	DNA
?	possible missed nest (55 day gap)
?	possible missed nest (55 day gap)
6	2017-07-12	Ossabaw	Nest	DNA
7	2017-07-24	Ossabaw	Nest	DNA
8	2017-08-06	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
9	2017-08-07	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
A	2017-08-09	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
B	2017-08-09	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
C	2017-08-10	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag
D	2017-08-10	Wassaw	Nest	DNA
E	2019-05-19	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
F	2019-05-20	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
G	2019-06-02	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
H	2019-06-03	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
I	2019-06-15	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
J	2019-06-29	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
K	2019-07-10	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
L	2019-07-22	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
M	2019-08-08	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
N	2019-08-09	Wassaw	Nest	DNA
O	2021-05-31	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
P	2021-06-13	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
Q	2021-06-24	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
R	2021-07-06	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
S	2021-07-17	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
T	2021-07-17	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
U	2021-07-18	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
V	2021-07-29	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	Flipper Tag
W	2021-07-30	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
X	2021-08-10	Wassaw	Nest	DNA
Y	2021-08-23	Wassaw	Nest	DNA
Z	2023-05-27	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, PIT Tag
	2023-05-29	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-05-29	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-06-14	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-06-15	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-06-15	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-06-29	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-09	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-10	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-20	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-20	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-21	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-22	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-07-22	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-08-01	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2023-08-13	Wassaw	Nest	DNA
	2025-05-20	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-06-02	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-06-13	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-06-24	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-06-25	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-06-25	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-06	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag
	2025-07-06	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag
	2025-07-07	Wassaw	Nest	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-17	Wassaw	False Crawl above HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-18	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-18	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-19	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag
	2025-07-20	Wassaw	False Crawl below HTL	DNA, Flipper Tag, PIT Tag

Minimum Distance: 0.01 km
Maximum Distance: 84.97 km
Mean Distance: 11.47 (±22.83 stdev) km
Mean Internesting Period: 12.7 days