Nesting Patrol Page 2
Nesting Patrol
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If the nest is in a good location, the eggs are re-covered. If the nest is in danger from being washed over by the tide, or in heavy human traffic areas, or has been raided ( by raccoons) it is relocated.
When the Nesting Patrol must relocate a nest, the eggs must be carefully transported in a bucket full of moist sand.
A replica of the nest is dug. This new nest resembles the "real" nest - it is shaped like an upside-down light bulb.
The eggs are carefully placed in the new nest and covered with sand.
If a nest is in a location where raccoons have raided nests in the past, it is covered by a 4 x 4 screen with openings that still allow the hatchlings to escape from the nest and into the sea!
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