Population has decreased due to collection of eggs and hunting controls. In Africa for the past ten years they have been protected and their numbers have increased. It is most common sea turtle in North American. It has a large head and a reddish brown upper shell, which has five or more large scales, or laminae, on each side of the midline. They are the largest hard-shelled turtles and are second in size only to the leatherback.
Loggerheads feed on marine organisms such as mollusks and crustaceans and also eat seaweed.
The biggest they get to be is 7 feet long and weigh up to 1,000 pounds but usually 300 pounds are considered large. The weather here today is really warm, it is zero degrees. It is sunny, we have about 16 hours of sunlight now. Ravens stay most of the winter.