Sentence examples for seashore turtle from inspiring English sources
She had just laid a nest full of eggs, and as soon as the scientists on hand -- led by Donna Shaver, from the Padre Island National Seashore turtle lab -- had taken a blood sample and inserted a tag, the turtle would be lifted out and released on the beach, a few dozen yards from the Gulf of Mexico.
The national seashore participates in a sea turtle nesting program in which eggs are collected from nests to hatch in an incubator and baby turtles are released into the gulf.
Officials with the federal Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service are proceeding with the annual release of Kemp's ridley turtle hatchlings off Padre Island National Seashore because Texas has not been significantly affected by the oil spill.
So far it's been a good season for Kemp's ridley sea turtles at Padre Island National Seashore, off the gulf coast of Texas.
More Baby Turtles Are Released Hundreds of baby Kemp's ridley sea turtles were released into the Gulf of Mexico at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas on Monday by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service.
The Padre Island National Seashore is home to migratory birds and endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles.
For the first time since the 1930s, federal biologists confirmed that a leatherback sea turtle has nested on a Texas beach, at the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi.
Meanwhile, a story in Friday's Times disclosed that the Interior Department has authorized new drilling projects in Padre Island National Seashore adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico -- a sensitive landscape that is also home to an endangered breed of sea turtle.
Smaller-scale translocations have been successful, Wibbels points out; Each year from 1978 until 1988, about 2000 Kemp's ridley sea turtle eggs were moved from the species' sole nesting beach in Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, to Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, in a bid to start a second nesting beach.
Members of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project have demanded that the government halt the release of hatchling sea turtles from Padre Island National Seashore in Texas into the Gulf of Mexico, for fear that they would enter the oil slick and die.
