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The Kemp’s Ridley turtle, the rarest sea turtle in the world, found stranded at Inlet Pond County Park by students from Jennifer Murray’s North Fork Audubon outdoor program. (Courtesy photo)
Students in Jennifer Murray’s North Fork Audubon Society outdoor program spent Dec. 15 at Inlet Pond County Park in Greenport, searching for stranded sea turtles.
It was a cold, windy day, with water temperatures in Long Island Sound below 50 degrees the temperature that stuns sea turtles and can lead to death.
A group of ten 7- to 13-year-olds followed the trail through the woods to the pebbly Sound beach. “Our purpose was to look for cold-stunned turtles,” said Ms. Murray. “We had been learning about them and how to look for them and save them.”