DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15137472
title: Table 4 in SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758)

description: Table 4. Nesting locations and nesting seasons for loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta. (Not every reference contains specific mention of the nesting season although at least one of the references listed does so.
MonthLocationJFMAMJJASONDReferenceWestern Atlantic OceanUnited StatesJBrandner (1983)New JerseyJBrandner (1983)JMohr (1973)DelawareJMohr (1973)JGraham (1973)MarylandJGraham (1973)VirginiaJJACoker (1906); Carr (1952); DoddVirginiaJJACoker (1906); Carr (1952); Dodd (1978); Musick (1979a, 19796)North CarolinaMJJACoker (1906); Coles (1914); Rebel (1974); Dodd (1978); Musick (1979a); Stoneburner (1981); Crouse (1984 a, 1985); Ferris (1986)South CarolinaMJJACaldwell (1959); Caldwell et al. (1959 a, 19596); Dodd (1978); Hopkins et al. (1978); Stancyk et al. (1980); Talbert et al. (1980); Andre and West (1981)GeorgiaMJJADeSola and Abrams (1933); Caldwell et al. (1959 a, 19596); Ragotzkie (1959); Caldwell (19626); Johnson et al. (1974); Dodd (1978); Richardson (1978, 1982); Richardson et al. (1978a, 19786); Kraemer (1979); Kraemer and Bennett (1981); Stoneburner (1981); Richardson and Richardson (1982); Frazer and Richardson (1985a, 19856; 1986)Florida (mainland)AAMJJASSCatesby (1731 - 1743); Loennberg (1894); Carr (1940); Caldwell et al. (1955, 1959 a, 19596); Routa (1968); LeBuff (1969, 1970, 1974); Gallagher et al. (1972); Worth and Smith (1976); Dodd (1978); Ehrhart and Yoder (1978); LeBuff and Hagan (1978); Ehrhart (1979c, 1982); McGehee (1979); Ehrhart (1980); Demmer (1981); Stoneburner (1981); Carr et al. (1982); Fritts and Hoffman (1982); Bjorndal et al. (1983); Meylan et al. (1983); Williams-Walls et al. (1983); Ehrhart and Raymond (1983); Raymond (19846); Frazer and Ehrhart (1985); Kushlan (1986); Witherington (1986); Lund (1978, 1986); Ehrhart and Witherington (1987); Ehrhart and Raymond (1987); Provancha and Ehrhart(1987); Conley and Hoffman (1987)Florida (keys)AMJFowler (1906); Audubon (1926); Pritchard (1982b)MississippiJAllen (1932); Carr et al. (1982)BahamasAMJJCarr et al. (1982); Bacon et al. (1984)Cuba aJJACaldwell et al. (1955); Cardona and de la Rua (1971); Kermarrec (1976); Gavilan and Andreu (1983)MexicoQuintana RooMJJARamos (1974); Rebel (1974); Marquez (1976, 1978 *); Hildebrand (1982); Carr et al. (1982); Bacon et al. (1984).TamaulipasJASMarquez (1978 *); Carr et al. (1982); Hildebrand (1982, 1983)PanamaJCarr et al. (1982)ColombiaAMJJASKaufmann (1966, 1968, 1971 *, 1973, 1975 *); Bacon et al. (1984)Trinidad aAMJJAsRebel (1974); Pritchard andGrenadaJJ JAsRebel (1974); Carr et al. (1982)French GuianaJFMAMJJAsPritchard (1971); Fretey (1976); Fretey and Renault-Lescure (1978); Pritchard and Trebbau (1984)BrazilNDMaximilian (1820); Hartt (1870); Bacon (1981); Pritchard and Trebbau (1984)Eastern Atlantic OceanSenegalJASOCadenat (1957); Villiers (1958); Ross (1982); Maigret (1977, 1983); Dupuy (1986)Mediterranean SeaGreece (including Crete)JJASMertens (1961, after Werner 1894); Honegger (1978); Marinos (1977, 1981); Margaritoulis (1982, 1983, 1985); Argano and Baldari (1983); Sutherland (1985)TurkeyMJJAGeldiay et al. (1982); Argano and Baldari (1983); Basoglu and Baran (1982)CyprusDemetropoulos and Hadjichristophorou (1982); Ross (1982); Argano and Baldari (1983); Demetropoulos and Lambert (1986)Lampedusa IslandJJDi Palma (1978); Argano and Baldari (1983); Gramentz (1986)LibyaJJSchleich (1987)Western Indian OceanOman (Masirah Island)AMJJASRoss (1979, 1982); Frazier (1980); Hirth (1980); Ross and Barwani (1982)MadagascarSONDVaillant and Grandidier (1910); Hughes (197c, 1971 e, 1974a, 1974b, 1976a, 1982b); Pritchard (1979); Frazier (1980)MozambiqueJNDHughes (1971a, 1971 c, 1971 e, 1974 b, 1976a); Frazier (1980)South Africa (Tongaland, Natal)JFSONDBass and McAllister (1964); McAllister et al. (1965); Hughes et al. (1967); Hughes and Mentis (1967); Hughes (1970a, 1970b, 197c, 1971 d1, 197e, 1972, 1974a, 1974b, 1975a, 1976a, 1976b, 1982a, 1982b, 1984); Hughes and Brent (1972)Northern Indian OceanIndiaᵇ (Gulf of Mannar)SONDJones and Fernando (1973); Murthy and Menon (1976)Sri Lanka ᵇJASDeraniyagala (1930, 1939)Western Pacific OceanJapanAMJJANishimura (1967); Miyawaki (1981); Uchida and Nishiwaki (1982); Anonymous (1984a, 19846); Iwamoto et al. (1985); Kamezaki (1986)Chinaᵇ (including Taiwan)AMJJAHuang (1982)AustraliaJFMONDBustard and Limpus (1970, 1971);Southern Pacific OceanTokelauaJJASONDBalazs (1983)Eastern Pacific OceanPanamaabMJJASONDSternberg (1981); Cornelius (1982)
ᵃ Nesting season includes other species as well as Caretta.
ᵇThere is some question about the accuracy of reports of loggerhead nesting at these localities.
description: Published as part of C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., 1988, SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758), pp. 17-19 in Biological report 88 (14) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14224174