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spotted turtle

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Seeing Spots in South Carolina: Early Season Success Trapping Spotted Turtles

  • ByAndrea Colton
  • March 13, 2026
Views:no views Spot 1 First Week in South Carolina Last Spotted Turtle trapping season, I spent most of…
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Spotted Turtle on forest floor.
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Spotted Turtle Telemetry & Nest Monitoring

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • August 12, 2025
Views:188 views https://youtu.be/Ez1ltHLNRUA Since March, Ben and Kira have been working hard tracking Spotted Turtles and protecting nests…
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Coastal marsh just outside the tree line containing wetlands more appropriate for Spotted Turtle trapping.
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Sunshine State Site Scouting

  • ByAndrea Colton
  • December 13, 2024
Views:123 views Coastal marsh just outside the tree line containing wetlands more appropriate for Spotted Turtle trapping. Monday…
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An especially colorful Spotted Turtle caught during surveys in Florida. Photo credit: Jonathan Mays
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New Published Research: Spotted Turtles, Ghosts of the Swamp

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • October 10, 2024
Views:491 views An especially colorful Spotted Turtle caught during surveys in Florida. – Jonathan Mays Few Spotted Turtle…
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Adult Pinewoods Treefrog, encountered while scounting for Spotted Turtles.
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A Week of Scouting for Spotted Turtles

  • ByAndrea Colton
  • September 12, 2024
Views:134 views An adult Pine Woods Treefrog found while surveying for sites. – Andrea Colton Monday I started…
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Spotted Turtle whose genetics were assessed as part of this study.
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New Published Research: Population Genetics of the Spotted Turtle

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • May 9, 2024
One component of our long-term work with Spotted Turtles in the southeastern U.S. has been to collect tissue samples from captured Spotted Turtles so we can examine the genetics of focal populations. The results from this research were recently published in the journal Chelonian Conservation and Biology.
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Some recent Spotted Turtle captures from southeastern Georgia showing the distribution of sizes and appearances present in this population. Photo credit: Andrea Colton
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Searching for Southeastern Spotted Turtles

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • April 8, 2024
The Orianne Society began working with Spotted Turtles in Georgia all the way back in 2014. At that time, little was known about this species in the southeastern U.S. Most of the published research on Spotted Turtles came from the northeast…
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New published research: Climate change and Spotted Turtle sex ratios

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • June 14, 2023
Views:443 views An adult Spotted Turtle from southeastern Georgia – Houston Chandler The Eastern Spotted Turtle Working Group…
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