Tag Archives: nest

Feb
26
2011

Turtle and white-eye update

Seychelles White-eye update The Seychelles white-eye chick mentioned in the previous diary entry was released out of the cage after 3 days inside and has since florished and is regularly seen following the adults from tree to tree. On the day of releasing the chick it was decided to try and catch an older unrung [...]

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Feb
17
2011

New Seychelles White-eye chicks

We are happy as always to welcome to new little Seychelles White-eye fledglings into the Cousine Island family. After observing the 2 in their nest for the last couple of days, they decided to fledge today at 13:00! Both chicks fledged, but the weaker of the 2 unfortunately fell down to the forest floor. We [...]

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Jan
31
2011

200 Nest mark reached!

We’ve recorded our 200th Hawksbill Turtle nest! We were very excited last season when we broke all records and had 113 nests for the whole breeding season. This year it wasn’t only broken, it was thrashed. Yesterday 3 females came up to nest, bringing our total number of nests up to date to the magic [...]

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Dec
05
2010

Last November update

November proved to have been a very busy and exciting month indeed. Turtles, birds and even tortoises helped to keep us busy. Starting with the turtles, lots of the diary entries concentrated on these, so to keep it sweet and short, during November a total of 328 hatchlings were safely released to sea. A total [...]

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Nov
06
2010

Lending a helping hand

This morning a Hawksbill Turtle female was seen coming onto the beach to nest. Nothing unusual about that. However, when you are a turtle affectionately known as Stompie (Little stump) this can be a task of epic proportions. We first met Stompie on the 18th of October 2010 when she came up to attempt nesting. Missing her hind left flipper, [...]

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