A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Actinemys marmorata
The western or Pacific pond turtle has been decimated by the introduction of bullfrogs. Populations consist of mature turtles. They appear to be a plain greenish brown, but if you look closely, the legs and head have black "scribble" marking on them
Ponds. This one is at the wildlife safari park, although it is native - the park probably allows it to stay wild, not be captured and hopefully not have it's young eaten by bullffrogs
Many times when there are more than one, they look like the surface of the log they are resting on
Spotted on Jun 19, 2011
Submitted on Aug 29, 2011
4 Comments
Thank you! And I added it and several others
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/4882...
do you have a link to the mission?
My favorite turtles :) Please consider adding it to the "Reptiles of the Pacific Northwest" mission!