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Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

Nests

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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.

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.

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Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 3969 (97.1%)
Unique Females: 1034 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 4089 (3968)
  In Situ: 3198
  Relocated: 891 (21.7%)
  Incubating: 4
  Inventoried: 3709
  Lost: 268 (6.5%)
  Unknown: 108
  Excluded: 13
False Crawls: 3951

First Nest: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2022-05-03
First Emergence: Jekyll (Loggerhead) 2022-07-03

Last Nest: St. Catherines (Loggerhead) 2022-08-16
Last Emergence: St. Catherines (Loggerhead) 2022-10-01

Estimated Eggs to Date: 410302
  Eggs Lost: 13104 (3.1%)
  Hatched Eggs: 281284
  Emerged Hatchlings: 266452
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 56.5 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 110.2 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 66.1%
Mean Emergence Success: 62.6%
Program Nest Success: 83.9%
Program Beach Success: 50.8%

Significant Nest Losses

Egg Status

Egg Losses

Nests

Species

Species	Nests	HS%	ES%
Loggerhead	4071	66.1	62.6
Green Turtle	10	56.8	49.1
Unknown	8	53.4	53.4

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%
Blackbeard	69	0	0	0	102	118	185	335	116	126	18	0	1	0	473	579	57.6	54.9	3.3
Cumberland	40	0	0	0	300	113	624	513	284	184	7	1	0	0	1255	811	73.6	71.4	21.6
Jekyll	5	0	0	1	67	71	115	195	55	80	4	0	1	0	243	347	81.2	76.7	13.1
Little Cumberland	4	0	0	0	28	42	58	78	26	40	0	1	0	0	116	161	66	65.1	21.5
Little St. Simons	3	0	0	0	59	60	118	135	56	47	0	0	0	0	236	242	74.1	70.5	20.3
Little Tybee	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	5	5	45.5	45.5	20
Ossabaw	35	1	0	0	165	130	332	411	186	174	5	0	0	0	723	715	59.3	55.7	9.8
Sapelo	4	0	0	0	44	24	81	128	31	46	0	0	0	0	160	198	53.9	51.7	48.1
Sea Island	2	0	0	0	43	21	71	78	27	23	2	0	1	0	144	122	67	63.1	38.8
St. Catherines	16	0	0	0	85	65	148	167	92	97	4	0	0	0	345	329	47.5	45.6	34.2
St. Simons	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	26	6	5	0	0	0	0	12	33	69	67	66.6
Tybee Island	2	0	0	0	4	4	17	13	14	11	0	0	0	0	35	28	56	51.7	80
Wassaw	0	0	0	0	82	74	169	199	89	108	2	0	0	0	342	381	72.9	61.9	39.7
Total	181	1	0	1	983	725	1923	2281	982	942	44	2	3	0	4089	3951	66.1	62.6	21.7

Species Beach Report

Beach	Unknown	Loggerhead	Green Turtle	Total
Blackbeard	0	473	0	473
Cumberland	3	1248	4	1255
Egg Island	0	0	0	0
Jekyll	0	243	0	243
Little Cumberland	0	116	0	116
Little St. Simons	0	236	0	236
Little Tybee	1	4	0	5
Ossabaw	0	723	0	723
Raccoon Key	0	0	0	0
Sapelo	0	156	4	160
Sea Island	0	144	0	144
St. Catherines	2	343	0	345
St. Simons	0	12	0	12
Tybee Island	2	33	0	35
Wassaw	0	340	2	342
Williamson	0	0	0	0
Total	8	4071	10	4089