Loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta

Geographical Distribution:

• Widely distributed in coastal tropical and subtropical waters (16-20 degrees C).
• Loggerheads can wander into temperate waters to the edge of warm currents.
• Some can migrate long distances in warm currents - Gulf Stream in the Northern Atlantic.
• They can survive in a variety of different environments e.g.
  Brackish water of coastal lagoons and river mouths; open sea.
• Often get spring-summer feeding grounds for juveniles, sub-adults and some adults.
• In the winter, they can remain buried in the mud of quite deep water.
• Limit of distribution is temperature dependent.
• Rarely survives in water below 10 degrees C.
• In cold waters they become stunned and drift helplessly.
• In some warm years they can get into northern waters e.g. Murmansk and Barent Sea.