What You Need to Know About Sea Turtles on the OBX Turtle, Sea turtle
1. Loggerhead An adult Loggerhead sea turtle weighs 250 - 400 pounds and can be up to 3.5 feet in length. Its carapace is reddish-brown while its skin tends to be a lighter tan or blonde color. A Loggerhead will have 5 lateral scutes. 2. Green An adult Green sea turtle weighs 250-450 pounds and can be up to 5 feet in length.
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The five sea turtles of the Outer Banks. This is a supplement to an earlier feature on the nesting success of sea turtles. Worldwide, there are only seven species of sea turtles and five of them, with varying degrees of frequency, can be found in the waters and nesting onshore on the Outer Banks. While North Carolina hosts a total of 22 species.
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Giant sea turtle meets the wild horses at Outer Banks beach
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A photo shared over the weekend on OBX Life Facebook shows a giant sea turtle meeting the Wild Horses on the North Carolina Outerbanks. Would I be terrified of both the horses and the turtle? Perhaps. Though the horses I may be expecting to see and if I was a fair distance away? I'd probably be good. And even I could outrun the turtle.
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In a rare and captivating spectacle, a giant sea turtle recently had a chance encounter with the wild horses that roam the shores of the Outer Banks beach. This unique and unexpected meeting provided onlookers with a mesmerizing display of nature's diverse inhabitants coming together in an extraordinary setting. The Outer Banks, known for its.
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May 7, 2012. COROLLA, N.C. — Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the off-season the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending.
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Luckily, this 8.8-pound green sea turtle found himself right where he needed to be this spring - at the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Center at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. There, caretakers tended to his wounds and put him on antibiotics. Within a few days, his appetite had returned and Wickershams was a.
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WTVD. OCRACOKE ISLAND, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been 11 years since a leatherback sea turtle laid a nest on Ocracoke Island until this week. On Monday, a nest with 93 eggs was laid on the beach.
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Their open-air cruises traverse beaches, dunes and Maritime forests with exclusive access to a wild horse sanctuary. Wild Horse Adventure Tours was ranked as the #1 tour in the USA by Tripadvisor and 2018 Business of the Year by the OBX Chamber of Commerce. Check out the wild horses in their tour video here, or call 252-489-2020 for more.
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If you see a sea turtle while visiting the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, please call 252-216-6892. To report a sighting to N.E.S.T., call 252-441-8622 . Go to comments
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Wild horses roam the beaches of the Outer Banks and Crystal Coast. Take a guided tour to see them at Corolla and Shackleford Banks. For more than 500 years, the most enduring - and endearing - residents of the Outer Banks, the wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs, have called this sliver of land between sound and sea home.
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