Map Of Where Sea Turtles Live

All freshwater turtles live mostly in water but often climb onto rocks and land to bask in the sun mate and lay eggs. There are two types of turtles.

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Map of where sea turtles live. The six species of sea turtles in the united states are protected under the endangered species act of 1973. The caribbean islands and the great barrier reef are probably the only two worlds locations where these turtles are congregated in largest numbers. Historically scientists tracked a free ranging sea turtle by tagging a flipper and documenting where the turtle was sighted.

Sightings mapped by year species. The green sea turtles are distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans around the world. Please click below to enter the map.

For green sea turtle hatchlings that reach the water it takes at least 20 to 50 years to reach sexual maturity. They often migrate long distances between feeding areas and nesting beaches. Sea turtles that are sick injured or dead are recoverd by sccf and live ones are taken to crow.

Often these migrations take them hundreds and even thousands of miles. Freshwater turtles and sea turtles. Leatherbacks have the longest migration of all sea turtles.

Swots interactive map and database of sea turtle biogeography is hosted and maintained by the swot team and duke universitys obis seamap. Birds mammals and other predators love feasting on the young turtles. The database contains thousands of data records that have been generously contributed by swot team members worldwide and sourced from published literature including sea turtle nesting data satellite telemetry data.

Sea turtle nesting although sea turtles live most of their lives in the ocean adult females have to return to beaches to lay their eggs. The newly hatched green sea turtles are very susceptible to predators exposure and losing their way. Use of this map material images or data for any purpose including but not limited to reproduction and distribution without the written consent of the sea turtle conservancy or the researcherinstitute contributing the data is prohibited.

Most sea turtles migrate between foraging and nesting grounds and seasonally to warmer waters. They have been found more than 4831 km 3000 miles from their nesting beaches. With satellite telemetry scientists can track the movements of sea turtles between areas and even across entire oceans.

The population of these turtles extends throughout the atlantic as well as the eastern pacific. This map shows the locations of all reported sightings of sea turtles by species in 2019characteristics which identify juvenile loggerhead green and kemps ridley sea turtles can be difficult to observe on a live swimming turtle. A healthy individual can be expected to live 80 to 100 years.

Online map sea turtle database.