Wood Turtle - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
WEBThe Wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) is a semi-aquatic species of turtle endemic to North America. It spends a great deal of time in or near the water of wide rivers and spends the winter in hibernation and the hottest parts of the summer in estivation.
Wood Turtle - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
WEBThe wood turtle once ranged widely across eastern landscapes characterized by meandering cobble-bottom streams and their surrounding fields and forests. Neither strictly aquatic nor terrestrial -- it lives both on land and in water -- the wood turtle is vulnerable to loss of both types of habitat.
Wood turtle - Wikipedia
WEBThe wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to northeastern North America. The genus Glyptemys contains only one other species of turtle: the bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii).
WEBWood Turtles (Fig. 1–3) require both aquatic and terrestrial habitats in order to maintain healthy and viable populations. Populations are almost always associated with slow-moving sections of clear, cold, woodland streams (Fig. 4, 5), especially those with a sand, gravel, or rock substrate.
Glyptemys insculpta (Wood turtle) - Michigan Natural Features Inventory
WEBHabitat. Wood Turtles are found primarily in or near moving water and associated riparian habitats. They prefer clear, medium-sized (range 7-100 ft / 2.1-30.5 m), hard-bottomed streams and rivers with sand and/or gravel substrates and moderate flow.
Wood turtle | Habitat, Diet & Behavior | Britannica
WEBWood turtle, (Clemmys insculpta), a woodland streamside turtle of the family Emydidae, found from Nova Scotia through the northeastern and north-central United States. The rough upper shell of the wood turtle is about 15–20 cm (6–8 inches) long and bears concentrically grooved pyramids on each of.
North American Wood Turtle
WEBThere, the North American Wood Turtle finds refuge in a mosaic of riparian woodlands, moist meadows, vegetated floodplains, swamps, agricultural land, and upland hillsides. The most important requisite is that these habitats are adjacent to cool, clear, or relatively clear streams, creeks, and rivers.
ADW: Glyptemys insculpta: INFORMATION
WEBWood turtles are often described as a woodland species, but in some places they appear to thrive in a mosaic habitat of riparian woods, shrub or berry thickets, swamps, and open, grassy areas.
Biology & Conservation of the Wood turtle - Northeast Turtles
WEBThe Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) has experienced significant population declines across its range in the United States and Canada, where it is a species emblematic of cool, remote, clean rivers from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and south to Virginia.
Wood Turtle Guide - New York Natural Heritage Program - NYNHP
WEBWood turtles, while never far from water, utilize a variety of habitats throughout the year. These turtles prefer to spend their time in clear, flowing streams and rivers or in the habitats surrounding them such as woodlands, meadows, and …
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