What you need to know as Florida's sea turtle nesting season kicks off

March is the official start of nesting season for sea turtles in the Sunshine State and, as a protected species, there are a few things to note about the season and nesting sea turtles.
Palm Beach Post

A record year for sea turtles? Early nesting has Loggerhead Marinelife Center thinking big

Watch your step on the beaches near Jupiter: Loggerhead Marinelife Center is predicting that 2025 will be a top-three year for sea turtle nestings. So far this season, the nonprofit conservation ...
WECT

Loggerhead sea turtle nests marked on Holden Beach by Turtle Patrol

HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - The Holden Beach Turtle Patrol has announced that sea turtles are back at the beach. Two Loggerhead sea turtle nests were spotted on May 22 and two more nests were laid out ...

Florida sea turtle nest counts for 2 beach renourishment project areas

Sea turtles laid over 14,000 nests from 2021-25 on two Treasure Coast beaches currently undergoing sand replenishment ...
EurekAlert!

Drones map loggerhead sea turtle nesting site hotspots

Florida’s beaches – particularly those in Palm Beach County – are among the world’s most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests ...
Palm Beach Post

It's turtle walk season: How you can see them lay their nests at north county beaches.

Every summer, as the sun sets over the shores of Palm Beach County, one of nature’s most awe-inspiring spectacles quietly unfolds in the sand. Sea turtles — greens, leatherbacks and loggerheads — ...
WPBF

Earliest nest recorded by Loggerhead Marinelife Center this season

HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S. WELL, THIS MORNING THE LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER DOCUMENTED THE EARLIEST SEA TURTLE NESTS EVER RECORDED. THE LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER MONITORS AN EIGHT AND A HALF MILE ...
Post and Courier

Once gravely injured, Mama Pritchard returns again and again to lay eggs on a Lowcountry beach

BEAUFORT — Some 17 years after she suffered grievous wounds from a pair of boat strikes, a loggerhead turtle known as Mama Pritchard is still making little sea turtles. Genetic testing has confirmed ...
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Gallery: Earliest sea turtle nest documented in Juno Beach signals early start to season

Loggerhead Marinelife Center has documented the earliest sea turtle nest ever recorded in its monitoring history, signaling an early start to what researchers expect will be another busy nesting ...
First Coast News

Webcam monitors loggerhead sea turtle nest

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) - A live-streaming webcam is focused on a loggerhead sea turtle nest on a Florida Keys beach. The high-definition camera, which went online Friday evening, offers daytime ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Rising seas and erosion are squeezing sea turtle nesting beaches

Sea turtles that have nested on the same stretches of sand for thousands of years are running out of room. As ocean levels ...