Like all animals, food availability is crucial to the quality of Blanding’s turtle habitat. Particularly for our head started juveniles, a fast growth rate and large shell size is key to avoiding predation. We noticed that some of our sites … Continued
Every summer for five years now, ZNE conservation biologist have wadered up and trekked out into the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University ponds to survey their biodiversity. To learn more about how this collaboration began and our first years of … Continued
For many folks, their introduction to Zoo New England’s Field Conservation Department came with the charming, golden-throated smile of a Blanding’s turtle. In 2003, Dr. Bryan Windmiller and colleagues started studying a small population of this threatened turtle at Great … Continued
This season with our nest surveys coinciding at the same time as our Wood turtle predation study, which you can read about in our previous post – CSI: Wood Turtles, we’ve had the opportunity to go about locating nesting turtles … Continued
