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  • Eastern Box Turtle Sighting Form

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  • Box turtle crossing a lawn in Middleboro, MA
  • Eastern Box Turtle

    Terrapene carolina. The only terrestrial turtle native to the New England area. Please use this form to report live, injured or dead Box Turtles in the southcoast area of MA.
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  • Sighting Information

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  • Note: Please enter the GPS coordinates if you know them. If you did not record the coordinates at sighting location, you can provide an estimated location by using Google Maps or Google Earth. This helps us in tracking exactly where these animals are. 

    If you need to convert your latitude and longitude to decimal degrees, to go the Earth Point website for a free online converter. 

  • If the Box Turtle is injured, please call the rescue number for the Southcoast Terrapin Project at 508-566-0009.

  • Determining the Sex of a Box Turtle

    It is quite easy to determine the sex of an eastern box turtle. Males have concave plastrons, thicker based and longer tails, longer front claws, and bright red or orange eyes. Females have flat or slightly convex plastrons, short, thin tails, and dark red or brown eyes.
  • Males

    Males have concave plastrons, thicker based and longer tails, longer front claws, and bright red or orange eyes. Females have flat or slightly convex plastrons, short, thin tails, and dark red or brown eyes

     

    Females 

    Females have flat or slightly convex plastrons, short, thin tails, and dark red or brown eyes.

  • The red eye of the male box turtle
  • Image from Turtle Hub at https://theturtlehub.com/how-to-tell-the-gender-of-a-box-turtle
  • Comparison of size and shape of the cloaca in Box Turtles.
  • Photo Documentation

    Please upload your images of the Box Turtle below. Photos help validate the sighting data and provide additional information such as photo-ID. 

    Please send any additional photos and/or videos to us at contact@necwa.org. 

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    • Thank you for sending us this sighting report of an Eastern Box Turtle. To learn more about the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA), go to our website at www.necwa.org.

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  • New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA) is an all-volunteer nonprofit based in southeastern MA. We work to better understand and protect the unique coastal marine wildlife in New England waters. Your efforts are helping us achive this goalTo learn more about NECWA and to support this project and our other community projects, go to www.necwa.org and thank you. 

     

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