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Madness and Mating in the Marsh

  turtles | May 4, 2013

With the start of each season on a long-term project a competitive spirit is provoked… everyone wants “their” season to be the “best”. At the end of each day this year’s team (and yes… we are a little competitive!) has been wondering how our total numbers of turtles captured compare to previous years. We’ve been [...]

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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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Ontario Turtles

  turtles | December 5, 2011
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What a difference 10 days makes! The turtle team is well established in our routine of conducting turtle surveys, checking our traps, and monitoring nesting sites. We are wearing out our incredibly stylish chest-waders at an astonishing rate with all the time we’re spending hip-deep in water, and between one thing and another it’s been [...]

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Ontario Turtles

  turtles | May 30, 2011
Spotted turtle

The spring has kicked off to a wonderful start with our spotted turtle surveys at populations across Ontario. The weather has unfortunately been cramping our style, since the late cold spring meant we had to enter some of our sites through snowbanks. However, we bundled up and headed in anyways, and the cold certainly didn’t [...]

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