There are five different species of sea turtles found on the clean and beautiful shores of Florida; all of these species are vital to the region’s ecosystem and all are protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the Florida Marine Turtle Protection Act. We’ll give you three of the most common sea turtles that are highly protected in the state of Florida.
Loggerheads are the most common type of sea turtles going by the shorelines of the City of Naples and Collier County. Annually, the female loggerhead sea turtles visit the area to lay their eggs in May and keep laying eggs through August or October. Hatchlings start developing 60 days after the nests are built and keep on hatching through October. Inside the City and County shorelines, many nests are created every year.
As the youthful turtles leave home they instinctually look for the Gulf by searching for characteristic light reflecting off the water. After reaching the water, hatchlings start their voyage to the Atlantic Ocean. The first days of their lives are spent swimming toward the sea. Once there, the little loggerheads creep into mats of floating green growth called sargassum. As the most widely recognized of the sea turtles along Florida’s coast, the Loggerhead gets special consideration in this state, especially amid nesting season. In the times of early Spring, the sea turtles assemble off the drift in substantial numbers to mate.
The Green Turtle, gets its regular name from the shade of its green fat. It can be additionally recognized from different species by its size and weight: around 3 and-a-half feet long and 300 pounds. It bears a couple of scales at the front of its head and its dim green carapace has four costal scutes, none of which are covered. A nearby look at the fore-flippers will uncover one paw on each.
The green turtle makes its home in the waters of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. Its favored natural surroundings are the shallow, very much vegetated waters close to drifts and islands. This is so in light of the fact that the green turtle, and its nearby relative the black turtle, are the main herbivorous ocean turtles. As adolescents, they subsist on an eating regimen of shellfish, jellyfish and other marine animals. Notwithstanding, after achieving adulthood, they eat on the assortment of ocean grasses and green growth that their marine home offers. They favor the choicest leaves: those that are youthful and higher in protein content. This environment likewise bears these marine reptiles shield. They can be discovered resting under shake edges and coral shades.
The Hawksbill is one of the most interesting sea turtles be that as it may, moderately little is thought about it. Having a place within the genus species Eretmochelys imbricata, the hawksbill is recognized by the covering, sharp scutes on the edges of its shell. It has four sets of these intercostal scutes and an especially diminutive jaw, from which it gets its name. The shell of the grown-up is a dull, greenish-darker shading while the adolescents have the celebrated around the world “tortoiseshell” design, a golden shading with faltering dashes of yellow, red or darker colors. On the off chance that you take a gander at its front flippers, you will see two paws on each.
