Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Florida

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Nests
1-5
6-10
11-20
21-40
40+

Beach Description

Atlantic/Neptune/Jacksonville Beaches

BSTP's 7.5 miles of monitoring area includes all of Atlantic, Neptune and Jacksonville Beaches in southern Duval County, FL.

Atlantic Beach has approximately 2 miles of coastline situated between Hanna Park to the north and Neptune Beach to the south.

Neptune Beach has approximately one mile of coastline situated between Atlantic Beach to the north and Jacksonville Beach to the south.

Jacksonville Beach has approximately 4 miles of coastline situated between Neptune Beach to the north and St. Johns County to the south.

To symbolically adopt a nest on any of these three beaches, please visit Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol website at bstp.net/donate.


Year

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Summary What does this mean Activity

Nests: 122
  In Situ: 121
  Relocated: 1 (0.8%)
  Incubating: 59
  Inventoried: 63 (51.6%)
False Crawls: 70

Estimated Eggs to Date: 6851
  Eggs Lost: 543 (7.9%)
  Hatched Eggs: 5648
  Emerged Hatchlings: 5501
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 55 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 127 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 84.3%
Mean Emergence Success: 82.1%
Nest Success: 51.6%
Beach Success: 63.5%

Last Updated: 2026-08-10 15:56:02 (7 hours ago)

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Significant Nest Losses
Egg Status Egg Losses
SpeciesNestsFalse Crawls
Loggerhead11970
Green Turtle1
Leatherback2