Photo Credit: Lindsey Koehler
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Tuesday and Friday mornings at Caswell Beach Town Hall, starting June 7!
WHO WE ARE
Caswell Beach Turtle Watch is a private non-profit staffed solely by volunteers from the community. The organization and its volunteers are supervised by authorized program leaders who are designated permittees of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission.
OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of Caswell Beach Turtle Watch is to protect threatened and endangered sea turtles that lay their eggs on Caswell Beach. Efforts include community education, and monitoring and reporting on sea turtle nesting and hatch activities relying on the public’s help.
NEST ADOPTION
You can “Adopt-a-Nest” to help support the efforts of Caswell Beach Turtle Watch in their nest monitoring activities. When you adopt a nest, you receive a Certificate of Adoption, nest photos, and updates about your nest throughout the season.
Video Highlights
2024/2023 Turtle Data
2024 Nests
2024 False Crawls
2024 Volunteer Hours
2023 Hatchlings
Our Latest Updates
- Wait! Our Mama Sea Turtles Are Not Done!It’s been a few days since Caswell Beach had a new Sea Turtle nest, but that changed today as we welcomed Nest #58 high on a grassy dune knoll! We are thankful for that location Read More
- Fox and Overwash Threatening Sea Turtle NestsNo new sea turtle nests or crawls for Caswell Beach today! As far as existing sea turtle nests, unfortunately 6 nests were overwashed again overnight, and the unusually high tides have now affected an additonal Read More
- Busy Sea Turtles and High Tides for Caswell BeachSea Turtle action on Caswell Beach is keeping our teams busy this week while we work to keep the high tides at bay. Nest #10 had a partial boil last night before dark with 67 Read More
- We Have Hatchlings!Caswell Beach Turtle Watch has had a busy couple of days as we have begun to see emergence from multiple nests. Nest #1 boiled Friday evening with 89 hatchlings going straight to the water on Read More
- Heavy Rains Challenging Our Sea Turtle Hatchlings!The Caswell Beach Turtle Watch has not located any new sea turtle nests in the last 2 days, but we did have 2 nests inventoried! As part of these inventories we’ve noted that the recent Read More