sea turtle migration
Marine chelonian voyages
Sea turtle migration is the long-distance seasonal movement of sea turtles between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.
Some species travel thousands of miles across ocean basins, navigating by Earth's magnetic field and other cues.
Females return to the same beaches where they hatched to lay their own eggs: Researchers tracked the sea turtle migration from Brazil to West Africa.
- oceanMassive saltwater body
- open oceanSea far from shore
- ocean currentContinuous seawater movement
- beachSandy waterside margin
- hatchlingsRecently emerged young animals
currents · leatherback · loggerhead · flippers · journey · long distance · magnetism · instinct · navigation · magnetic field · tropical · eggs · sand · moonlight · full moon · waves · Pacific · Atlantic
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, emigrant, refugee, asylum seekers
- Island Biogeographyendemic species, colonization, oceanic islands, volcanic islands, atolls