The Turtle Nest

03/25/2024

Note to self: June 11th! Go get some turtle stamps!

It's turtle time! 🐢💚 🐢💚 🐢💚

The U.S. Postal Service is releasing 6 commemorative sea turtle stamps on June 11, 2024. NOAA Fisheries scientist Barbara Schroeder (National Sea Turtle Coordinator) worked on this effort, with assistance from Jeff Seminoff (lead of the Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program), during her last year of federal service and into retirement.

These are the first U.S. stamps dedicated solely to sea turtles. They will be issued as a pane of 18 forever stamps, intended to increase public awareness of sea turtle conservation efforts and the ongoing threats to their survival.

👀 Get a sneak peek! https://bit.ly/3vqrPdK

10/22/2023

2023 was a terrific turtle 🐢 season!
https://explorebeaufortsc.com/2023-another-big-year-for-south-carolina-sea-turtles/?fbclid=IwAR1AnJ67P3oOAwJSTVfnIuGQ_PjlQLro177zSvxd-afhLQCpQy4VmYhphvc

07/11/2022

Hatching has begun!

First nest in Zone 2. 🐢 ⛅️ 🌊

Nest #4
89 eggshells
30 unhatched eggs
9 live hatchlings

06/22/2022

June 22, 2022 - "Our" mamas continue to nest at a record pace! There are 290 nests on Kiawah Island as of this morning! 🐢 WOW! 😲

06/15/2022

It's ! 🐢
This image is to remind you that's it is nesting season. All beach furniture should be removed from the beach. Items left on the beach are an entanglement risk for nesting females so please leave it clean for our endangered sea turtles!

06/06/2022

June 6, 2022 - 166 nests on Kiawah Island as of this morning! 🐢 WOW! 😲

05/23/2022

EDIT: May 22, 2022 - 64 nests on Kiawah!
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Apologies for the mistake. Yesterday showed 18 nests, but that was 18 nests LOCATED IN ONE DAY! WOW!

05/22/2022

May 22, 2022 - 18 nests on Kiawah 🐢

05/10/2022

May 10, 2022
There are now FOUR nests on Kiawah! 🐢

05/06/2022

🐢 Loggerhead sea turtles almost ALWAYS begin nesting on Kiawah Island on Mother's Day week-end.
You guessed it! They did it again!
The first nest of 2022 was found this morning!

05/03/2022

May 2, 2022
They are here! 🐢