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Turtles are bustin' out all over.
Hawaii's green sea turtles, called honu in Hawaiian, have been hatching in record numbers this fall at Tern Island, the main biological research station of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Tern is one of several small, sandy islands within French Frigate Shoals, an atoll about 500 miles northwest of Honolulu. The remote sand islands of this atoll are vital to the survival of the Hawaiian green turtle, because they host the last main nesting sites of this threatened species. About 90 percent or more of Hawaii's greens lay their eggs on beaches within this atoll. On Tern, the atoll's only island inhabited by biologists year round, turtle nests pock the white sand beaches.