Browsing tag / Cancun Turtle Season

• Turtle Update

  It has a been a busy few days for the turtles at The Royal Sands, eight females nested at the weekend and three more on Monday, bringing the tally to 63 nests and 7,628 eggs. A further 180 hatchlings were released last night to begin life at sea. The overwhelming majority of our summer visitors to...

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• Welcome to the World

  We are delighted to announce the birth of the first sea turtles of the season earlier today at The Royal Sands. All 117 are doing fine and will be released after dark tonight when there are fewer bird predators such as sea gulls and frigate birds around. If you have ever gently held a baby turtle...

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• Turtle News

  It was a very busy weekend at The Royal Sands with 10 turtle nests registered, bringing the season's tally to 52 nests and 6,308 eggs. No eggs have hatched so far although the security department expects this to start later this week. As ever, we will keep you posted on our summer visitors...

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• Turtle News

  The tally of turtles at The Royal Sands now stands at 40 nests and 4,849 eggs while The Royal Caribbean has still only registered one nest. We will keep you posted on our incredible summer visitors and let you know when the eggs start to hatch. ...

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• Keeping Track of the Turtles

  Records are indeed made to be broken and last night The Royal Sands welcomed a green turtle that laid 207 eggs! This incredible mom brought the tally of nests to 37 and protected eggs to 4,446. The Royal Caribbean has now registered one loggerhead nest with 154 eggs. Meanwhile at The Royal...

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