| Nesting Beach Data | ||
| YEAR: | The year at the beginning of the nesting season. Ex: The nesting season extends from Nov 2007 - March 2008. The year reported should be 2007. | |
| SPECIES: | Scientific name of the species that the data represent. | |
| COUNTRY: | Country in which the beach is physically located. | |
| REGIONAL ORGANIZATION: | Any Regional Organization with which this beach and data are associated. Ex: WIDECAST, MEDASSET, IOSEA, etc. | |
| BEACH NAME: | Name of the beach. | |
| BEACH LOCATION | Latitude and longitude of the center of the beach (both monitored and unmonitored sections). Remember, you can use the map to select a location. | |
| TAGGED INDIVIDUALS: | Number of unique females tagged and counted for the given year. | |
| CLUTCHES/ NESTS: | Number of clutches (successful oviposition events) laid by nesting females – also known as “true” crawls. | |
| CRAWLS: | Number of crawls and emergences counted on the beach, including “false" crawls but with no double counts. | |
| EXACT COUNT: | If the exact number of females/clutches/crawls is known or has been estimated using a reputable method, please report it here and provide documentation of the methodology. Use “0” if nesting has been known to occur in the past but did not occur this year – zeros are just as important as any other count! | |
| BINNED COUNT: | If the number of females/clutches/crawls is not known but can be roughly estimated/reported, use one of the bins provided to help us standardize the database. Use “Unquantified” for a beach that is known to have nesting, but has not been quantified in any way for this year. | |
| ESTIMATE METHOD: | If any of your reported counts, exact or binned, are estimates, please provide a brief description of the method used to generate the estimate (please provide relevant citations). | |
| NESTING SEASON AT BEACH: | Start and end periods for the nesting season at the beach for the species being reported. The choices for dates are in two-week intervals. If nesting is year-round, please enter Jan 1-15 and Dec 16-31 as start and end periods, respectively. | |
| MONITORING START/END DATES: | The day, month, and year in which you started and finished monitoring the beach: enter as MM/DD/YYYY. | |
| BEACH LENGTH: | Physical length of the beach in kilometers – both monitored and unmonitored sections. | |
| DATA CITIATION/SOURCE: | Please give the full text of how this data should be cited in the SWOT report/database. Example: Ekanayake, E. M. L., Ranawana, K. B., Kapurusinghe, T., Premakumara, M. G. C., and M. M. Saman. 2002. Marine turtle conservation in Rekawa turtle rookery in southern Sri Lanka. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Science) 30:79-88. |
