Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:41:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marty Cribb Subject: more on sea turtles MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello again Ospreyers, To add to my earlier post on the Sea Turtles. = During the several winters I had the good fortune to spend in South = Texas I made several visits to the Turtle Lab at Padre Island National = Seashore near Corpus Christ, Tx. A strong effort is being made to = re-introduce several species of Turtles to the Western Gulf in hopes of = them reestablishing historic nesting beaches along the Texas barrier = islands. I have had on several occasions the chance to view turtle = necropsys and by far the main culprit in turtle deaths was the ingestion = of plastics ie: trash bags. The other culprit was and still is Shrimp = Trawlers. Good Birding, Marty Cribb, St Marys Co, Point Lookout, Md ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================