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Introducing the 2013 Turtle Team!

  turtles | May 4, 2013

I am thrilled to report a phenomenally successful start to our 2013 turtle project. We hit the ground running last Saturday, fashionably dressed in new, supposedly waterproof waders, and we have spent the last week tromping around looking for turtles. This part of the season is focused on mark-recapture surveys of the populations we are monitoring in southern Ontario, [...]

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Turtle Update – Christina Davy – August 29, 2011

  turtles | August 29, 2011
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Hello from the land of turtle hatchlings! We have had our hands full of hatchling turtles this month – literally. Our first protected nests hatched at the beginning of the month and the rest of our eggs (over 800 this year) have been going steady ever since. Ashley has been marking, measuring and releasing hatchlings [...]

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Turtle Update – Christina Davy – July 31, 2011

  turtles | July 31, 2011
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Finally, our turtle rescue from two months ago is complete! Fifty-eight days and hundreds of kilometres later, The Turtle, captured June 2nd with a nasty tail injury, was released back to the swamp wilds of Rondeau Provincial Park, July 31st. This big male snapper has spent the last 2 months at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma [...]

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