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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

Nests

No Data

1-10

11-100

101-1000

1000+

Program Description

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of Georgia, USA. Georgia DNR's Sea Turtle Conservation Program has several components including management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically, cooperators locate and protect sea turtle nests (~150 km of coastline), document strandings, perform necropsies on dead strandings, work with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center to provide rehablitation for live strandings, conduct research, provide technical expertise on anthropogenic activities that have the potential to impact sea turtles (i.e., nourishment, dredging), and conduct education and outreach activities.

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Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 2299 (98.5%)
Unique Females: 693 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 2333 (2320)
  In Situ: 1708
  Relocated: 625 (26.7%)
  Inventoried: 2162
  Lost: 160 (6.8%)
  Unknown: 11
  Excluded: 2
False Crawls: 2325

First Nest: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2015-05-04
First Emergence: Sapelo (Loggerhead) 2015-07-08

Last Nest: Cumberland (Green Turtle) 2015-09-12
Last Emergence: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2015-10-15

Estimated Eggs to Date: 239724
  Eggs Lost: 8837 (3.6%)
  Hatched Eggs: 164271
  Emerged Hatchlings: 152464
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 57.8 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 112 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 64.1%
Mean Emergence Success: 59.4%
Program Nest Success: 84.4%
Program Beach Success: 50%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	2319	64.2	59.5
Green Turtle	6	20	19.4
Leatherback	1	0	0
Kemp's Ridley	1	0	0
Unknown	6	80.4	79.6

Monthly Beach Report

Beach	???		May		Jun		Jul		Aug		Sep		Overall
Beach	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	N	FC	HS%	ES%	R%
Blackbeard	25	0	57	78	168	224	69	60	13	1	1	0	323	363	68.5	63.5	21.3
Cumberland	14	0	109	60	290	227	163	103	7	9	1	0	583	399	68.8	65.1	22.1
Jekyll	1	0	37	42	78	126	42	93	1	0	1	0	160	261	65.9	58.9	10
Little Cumberland	4	0	11	11	30	61	18	15	5	6	0	0	65	93	68.7	65.9	47.6
Little St. Simons	0	0	29	24	64	79	30	18	1	0	0	0	124	121	68.1	65	37.9
Little Tybee	5	0	3	1	8	19	5	2	0	0	0	0	21	22	57.8	50.9	14.2
Ossabaw	31	0	71	57	175	205	90	55	1	0	0	0	368	317	50.9	47.6	6.7
Sapelo	0	0	37	14	65	87	33	24	2	3	0	0	137	128	64.8	62.2	47.4
Sea Island	2	0	23	18	56	43	27	17	3	3	0	0	111	81	65.6	58.4	35.1
St. Catherines	7	0	42	38	98	219	59	59	3	1	0	0	209	317	66.1	61.5	64.5
St. Simons	0	0	0	1	2	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	4	6	71.5	69.3	100
Tybee Island	0	0	2	4	5	6	3	4	0	0	0	0	10	14	53.4	53.1	40
Wassaw	3	0	32	20	107	125	76	58	3	0	0	0	218	203	60	50.6	26.6
Total	92	0	453	368	1146	1424	617	509	39	24	3	0	2333	2325	64.1	59.4	26.7

Species Beach Report

Beach	Unknown	Loggerhead	Green Turtle	Leatherback	Kemp's Ridley	Total
Blackbeard	2	321	0	0	0	323
Cumberland	4	575	3	1	0	583
Egg Island	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jekyll	0	159	1	0	0	160
Little Cumberland	0	63	1	0	1	65
Little St. Simons	0	124	0	0	0	124
Little Tybee	0	21	0	0	0	21
Ossabaw	0	368	0	0	0	368
Raccoon Key	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sapelo	0	137	0	0	0	137
Sea Island	0	111	0	0	0	111
St. Catherines	0	208	1	0	0	209
St. Simons	0	4	0	0	0	4
Tybee Island	0	10	0	0	0	10
Wassaw	0	218	0	0	0	218
Williamson	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	6	2319	6	1	1	2333