Abbreviations:

AIP:  Amelia Island Plantation

FC:  False Crawl or abandoned nesting attempt, the turtle crawls out of the water but does not nest

Initial with Number:  Name of nest, permitted volunteers initials with the number of nests they have verified

Insitu:  Clutch of eggs left in place and not relocated

Relocated:  Clutch of eggs removed from original nest site and placed in a man-made nest

SRA:  State Recreation Area, Amelia Island State Park at south end of island managed by Talbot Island State Park

FWC: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Excavation Terminology:
  
Shared on our crawl and activity list:
 

Nest:  Name of nest

Live in Nest:  Number of live hatchlings found in nest 

Live Emerge:  Number of live hatchlings calculated to have left the nest on their own

Total Clutch size:  Total number of eggs calculated from unhatch eggs and shards. 

Other data collected:

Date Emerge:  Date of first emergence

Dead in Nest: Number of dead hatchlings found in nest

Live Pipped:  Number of live hatchlings found in an egg that is pipped, or broken open

Dead Pipped:  Number of dead hatchlings found in egg that is pipped, or broken open

Unhatched:  Number of unhatched eggs remaining in nest

Shards:  Number of empty eggs shells

Our 2026 nesting season began May 1. See our nest list for nest information.

As directed by the FWC, AISTW marks nests with nest name only.  Our list shares nest name, date, volunteers, partial results of excavations, and some statistics on this website. For prior years, see our Historical Data page.