Green Turtles
by Brian Wallace
Title
Green Turtles
Artist
Brian Wallace
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Captured at Bunks Pond along blackberry trail at Kinder Farm Park in Millersville, Maryland (10-1-21).
A group of turtles may be called a bale, turn, dole, or nest. The collective terms “bale” and “turn” seem to apply exclusively for turtles.
Turtles are an order of reptiles known as Testudines; characterized by a shell developed from their skeleton. Wikipedia
Order: Testudines; Batsch, 1788.
Class: Reptilia
Phylum: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia
Turtles Temporal range: Late Jurassic – Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N: Turtles; Temporal range: Late Jurassic – Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Clade: Perichelydia
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October 4th, 2021
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Comments (3)
Debby Pueschel
Even the log looks like a turtle. FL
Brian Wallace replied:
Thanks Debby, for the nice comment and L/F. There's a log in the pond that looks like a great blue heron from a distance!
Brian Wallace
Thanks Mariola Bitner, for featuring my work in the group, https://fineartamerica.com/groups/wildlife-one-a-day-.html
Kathi Isserman
It is my pleasure to inform you that your AWESOME photo is FEATURED on the HOMEPAGE OF "Mid-Atlantic States of the USA"! L Please add the photo to the 2021 “FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE THREAD.” Thank yo u for participating in the group.
Brian Wallace replied:
Thanks Kathi, for the nice comment, and feature in the group, https://fineartamerica.com/groups/mid-atlantic-states-of-the-usa-photographs-only.html
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