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Nesting News

Written by Cindy Lane on . Posted in Outdoors, Sea turtles.

Turtle Watch logoTurtle nests laid: 544 (beating the 2018 record of 534!)
False crawls: 568
Nests hatched: 413
Hatchlings hatched: 27,298 (2018 record: 35,788)
Nest disorientations: 55

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Rare daylight turtle nesting recorded

Written by SUN contributor on . Posted in Featured, Outdoors, Sea turtles.

This loggerhead sea turtle provided a memorable experience to beachgoers on Memorial Day, with a rare nesting in broad daylight as Subtropical Storm Alberto headed north away from Anna Maria Island.

Turtles are nesting unusually high on the beach, in the dry sand of the dune line, since the storm produced high tides that left wet sand halfway up the beach on some areas of the Island.

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring | Submitted

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Turtle season one for record books

Written by Cindy Lane on . Posted in Featured, Outdoors, Sea turtles.

Sea turtle nesting and hatching season is ending on Anna Maria Island with the turtles doubling and tripling records, both good and bad.

Nesting News

Turtle nests laid: 488

False crawls: 446

Nests hatched: 340

Not hatched: 148

Nests remaining: 0

Hatchlings to Gulf: 25,379

Nest disorientations: 58

Source: Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring

All nests have hatched – all 488 of them – resulting in a record high number of nests surpassing last year’s previous record by 53 nests, according to statistics compiled by Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring.

Turtle mothers, mostly loggerheads, more than doubled their 20-year average of 205 nests per year on the Island this season, May 1 – Oct. 31.

It also was a record year for the number of turtle hatchlings that made it out of their nests, across the beach and into the Gulf of Mexico – 25,379 – surpassing the 2016 record by 7,051 hatchlings.

The hatchlings more than doubled their 20-year average of 10,962 hatchlings per year, despite the high tides of Hurricane Irma on Sept. 10.

However, the year’s 58 disorientations also set a record, up 30 from the 2016 record.

Improper lighting, beach furniture left out overnight, holes in the sand and other causes more than tripled the 20-year average of 16 disorientations per year.