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We go out and survey the beaches for

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our endangered and threatened species ,

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specifically shorebirds and sea turtles .

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Shorebird nesting season starts in uh

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February and will go through the end of

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summer time . And then the sea turtle

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nesting season starts may 1st through

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the end of August and then hatching for

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the sea turtle will typically go to the

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end of October . The critically

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endangered species that we , we have

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here out on tle that we're working to

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protect would be the snowy plover .

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That's a tiny little shorebird out here .

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And then we also have uh two species of

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sea turtles that typically nest in our

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beaches . We have the green sea turtle

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and the loggerhead sea turtles . Team

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Tyndall could help by observing the

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areas that we have posted off for our

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shorebird nesting . There are roped off

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areas and these are the areas that

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would have shorebird nests . These

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nests are directly on the ground there .

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They lay their nest in the sand and

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they're so camouflage . It's almost

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impossible to see them until you're

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actually right up on them . So , like

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the , the threat of being stepped on is

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very real . Um Also uh I know it's

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really fun to have your dog go to the

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beach . But the entirety of the gulf

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side of our beach here on Tyndall is

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considered a critical wildlife area .

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So the dogs are seen as a predator by

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the shore birds and could flush parents

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off the nest and expose the chicks or

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the eggs to actual predators .