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Dear Nature Canada,
This is a picture I captured in September 2010 in our backyard in Kingsville, Ontario. We live along the Cedar Creek Conservation area and annually we get turtles hatching in our yard. I believe these are baby snapping turtles – we watched the mother lay the eggs in June 2010 and we protected the area until the turtles began hatching in September. We counted them as they hatched – there were at least 30.
Sincerely,
Laura Moore
Thanks for sharing this wonderful photo with us, Laura!
The common snapping turtle – the largest freshwater turtle in Canada – can weigh as much as 15kg and carry a shell up to 50cm long. Its diet consists of various aquatic plants and animals, including fish, frogs, birds and small mammals.
Mating occurs in the spring, followed by nesting in May and June. Females lay white, round eggs that hatch in September or October. Chelydra serpentine can live 30 to 40 years in the wild.
Their habitat spans southern areas of Canada, from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia, and includes a large part of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.
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