Baby Loggerhead Sea Turtle Tracks

Many small lines of tracks in the sand, each with a central drag line and many flipper prints on either side, overlap as they head towards the ocean. The tracks are bounded by short walls of plastic buried into the sand, forming a runway.
Photo By/Credit
Sarah Toner/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
03/16/2022
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Facility
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
Ecosystem
Coastal
Species
Caretta caretta
Subject tags
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Marine ecology
Reptiles