USFWS National Digital Library

- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Children; Youth;
- A young child observes while sea turtle eggs are readied for relocation.
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- Oil located on beach
- Oil spills; Employees (USFWS); Coastal environments; Service patch; Uniforms; Oil spills;
- Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jereme Phillips contacts the Unified Incident Command on Friday, June 11, 2010 to report oil on a refuge beach.
- Images
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Egg is carefully marked to note its orientation.
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- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- July 16, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: Sea turtle nests are located and marked by USFWS and volunteers that patrol the beach every day.
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- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Connecting people with nature;
- July 16, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: University of Florida students Natalie Williams and Brail Stephens (right).
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- Sea turtle nest excavation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles;
- July 9, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: A crowd of trained sea turtle volunteers watch as USFWS biologist Dianne Ingram digs for the next egg. Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Tom Strickland, watches as he holds a cooler full of eggs shut. Photo by...
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- Sea turtle nest excavation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles;
- July 9, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Tom Strickland (in blue) stands and watches as the nest excavation begins. Photo by Denise Rowell, USFWS.
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- Status assessment and conservation action plan for the long-billed curlew (numenius americanus) Biological Technical Publication BTP-R6012-2009
- Birds;
- long-billedcurlew.pdf
- Documents
- Partners in Flight Watch List
- Document
- mbd_watchlist.pdf
- Documents
- North American bird conservation initiative bird conservation region descriptions
- Document; Birds;
- na_birdconservation_regdescrip00.pdf
- Documents
- Chuck Hunt oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Management; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife management; Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS)
- Oral history interview with Chuck Hunt. Interviewed by Jim King in Bethel, Alaska, March 30, 1999.
- Documents
- Jack Paniyak oral history transcript
- History; Employees (USFWS); Personnel; Bird banding; Wildlife refuges;
- Oral history interview with Jacl Paniyak as interviewed by Jim King and Cal Lensink.
- Documents
- William Hutchinson oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Employees (USFWS); Maintenance; Management; Wilderness; Wildlife management; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service;
- Oral history interview with William Hutchinson; Dorothe Norton as interviewer.
- Documents
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Port St. Joe, FL: A crate containing sea turtle eggs is slowly loaded into its carrier.
- Images
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Connecting people with nature;
- Port St. Joe, FL: A group of University of Florida students help with this sea turtle egg excavation, along with USFWS biologists and a USGS biologist.
- Images
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Port St. Joe, FL: A peek over University of Florida student Jacob Hill's shoulder as he places another egg into the cooler.
- Images
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Port St. Joe, FL: A thermometer is carefully installed atop the first layer of turtle eggs. This device is crucial to ensuring the sea turtle embryos stay healthy and the sex ratio of the turtles is not compromised.
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- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Port St. Joe, FL: Another marked nest on the beach at Port St. Joe.
- Images
- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Employees (USFWS);
- Port St. Joe, FL: Brail Stephens (University of Florida) gently places the cooler into the carrier as Natalie Williams (UF) and Lorna Patrick (USFWS) assist.
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- Sea Turtle egg relocation
- Oil spills; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers;
- Port St. Joe, FL: Brail Stephens and Jacob Hill (University of Florida) finish attaching a thermometer to the second box of turtle eggs in nest #1.
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