Nesting Beach Monitoring Network
2013 Research Update
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| El Venado | |
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| In May, Dustin Baumbach and Steve Dunbar went to El Venado to begin a study on East-Pacific Hawksbills. However, Dustin was unable to find any Hawksbills in the area, despite searching the south part of the Gulf of Fonseca for 10 weeks. | On the second day we were at El Venado looking for Hawksbills, some of the community members reported a 'Hawksbill' they had captured in the estuary. The captured turtle turned out, instead, to be a Green turtle. |
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| El Venado Turtle Research and Conservation Center with its growing infrastructure including the improved dining facilities on the right. | Two of the community members helped to burry eggs collected from the beach during the first nights of September. Danilo (top) has worked on other turtle projects previously. |
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| The hatchery with the sign boards showing the date and time when the eggs were collected and buried. | Gaby Ochoa (L) and Enrique Vijil (R) look on as a nest is buried. |
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| Children are playing on a school day in El Venado. | |
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| Punta Raton | |
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The old center at Punta Raton continues to be destroyed by the increasing high tide which damaged the foundation of the building. |
The view from the center out to the ocean where the bird tower remain standing. |
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| Much of the beach forest has been washed away from the entire coastal area at the south end of Punta Raton. | |
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