A look back at some of my favourite turtles. I realized my old body preferred setting the camera down on the ground with the turtle, rather than hunkering down myself! This is the season to rescue turtles. If you can safely set them on the other side of the road, in the direction in which they are going, you can prevent a death.
TURTLES:
In Ontario we have 10 species of turtles, of those some are at risk: habitat loss, pesticides, road incidents, a slow maturity rate, poisons (mercury, PCBs), illegal hunting.
- Blanding's (Emydoidea) blandingii)
- Eastern Box (Terrapene carolina)
- Eastern Musk (Sternotherus odoratus) –THREATENED
- Eastern Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinigera) –THREATENED
Toronto Zoo Poster - Midland Painted (Chrysemys picta marginata)
- Northern Map (Graptemys geographica) –SPECIAL CONCERN
- Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) –
- Spotted (Clemmys guttata) – VULNERABLE
- Western Painted (Chrysemys picta bellii)
- Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insulpta) –SPECIAL CONCERN
This was the mother of all turtles, spotted July 20, 2009 Muskoka.
