Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

North Carolina WRC Sea Turtle Project

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

Beach Description

Topsail Island
North Carolina WRC Sea Turtle Project

Topsail Island straddles Pender and Onslow counties in NC, and contains the towns of North Topsail Beach, Surf City, and Topsail Beach. Sea turtle nests are monitored and protected by volunteers from the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Surf City.

Adopt-a-Nest from Topsail Island

Leslie Cosentine
Leslie Cosentine
Dakotah Contreras
Saldivar Family

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Summary What does this mean Activity

Nests: 146
  In Situ: 110
  Relocated: 36 (24.6%)
  Incubating: 121
  Inventoried: 25 (17.1%)
False Crawls: 62

Estimated Eggs to Date: 7267
  Eggs Lost: 151 (2%)
  Hatched Eggs: 2504
  Emerged Hatchlings: 2418
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 61.3 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 121.5 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 80.1%
Mean Emergence Success: 77.5%
Nest Success: 16.4%
Beach Success: 70.1%

Last Updated: 2026-08-10 09:16:30 (48 hours ago)

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Significant Nest Losses
Egg Status Egg Losses
SpeciesNestsFalse Crawls
Loggerhead14260
Green Turtle4
Unknown2