Northern Map Turtles
Kiley Briggs
Northern Map Turtles have tan or grayish shells, yellow markings on their skin, and intricate markings on their shell resembling lines on a topographic map, giving the species its name.
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Searching for Southeastern Spotted Turtles
Houston Chandler
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…
Common Snapping Turtle
Tracy Karplus
Common snapping turtles are often overlooked or underappreciated as a species and perhaps even suffer a bit of a bad rap due to their defensiveness and strong bite when on land. However, underwater, they become almost puppy-like with their curiosity, often approaching very closely.
Magdalena River Turtle
The Magdalena River Turtle (Podocnemis lewyana) is a Colombian endemic classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
New Published Research: Landscape Structure and Turtle Communities
This month, I take a look at a recently published paper that leverages the large dataset built over several field seasons to examine how landscape characteristics influence abundance in freshwater turtle communities.
Our first few weeks of Wood Turtle surveys in the Hudson-Berkshire region
Getting to the stream proved to be a challenge – dense thickets of thorny shrubs stood between me and the river, tearing at my legs every step of the way, halting my progress, and forcing me to backtrack several times.
Wood Turtles
Views:740 views Despite their bright orange legs, Wood Turtles can be difficult to spot. – Kiley Briggs “I’ve…
Spotted Turtle
Views:191 views “On a sunny day back in mid-April, I was hiking through one of Virginia’s remaining pond-pine…