Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

North Carolina WRC Sea Turtle Project

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Nests
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6-10
11-20
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40+

Beach Description

Onslow Beach
North Carolina WRC Sea Turtle Project

Onslow beach is located within the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in Onslow County. This beach has one of the longest-running sea turtle monitoring projects in North Carolina (since the early 1970s), and also has a Sea Turtle Sanctuary established in its nearshore coastal waters. Personnel from the Environmental Management Division of Camp Lejeune are responsible for monitoring and protecting sea turtle nests laid on Onslow beach, and also for responding to stranded turtles


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Summary What does this mean Activity

Nests: 108
  In Situ: 77
  Relocated: 31 (28.7%)
  Incubating: 8
  Inventoried: 99 (91.6%)
  Lost: 1 (0.9%)
False Crawls: 82

Estimated Eggs to Date: 12153
  Eggs Lost: 125 (1%)
  Hatched Eggs: 8854
  Emerged Hatchlings: 8542
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 58.3 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 117 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 73.8%
Mean Emergence Success: 71.2%
Nest Success: 87%
Beach Success: 56.8%

Last Updated: 2026-09-24 12:58:36 (2.5 days ago)

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Significant Nest Losses
Egg Status Egg Losses
SpeciesNestsFalse Crawls
Loggerhead10882