The wildlife identification game: Can you identify these turtles' species? [burnsteem100]
I've had these pictures posted on iNaturalist for a while, and so far they have not received any identifications from the community. So, I thought I'd ask Steem community, too. Can Steem identify these turtles before iNaturalist does?
I think I know 5 of 6, but I'm not 100% sure. As a resource, one of the AIs suggested paherps.com as the best website for checking them, but you're welcome to use others.
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| 1st image shadow boosted in post-processing to highlight the coloring | |
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Of course, you're free to try to identify all of them in both photos, but I'm only looking for the 6 in the zoomed in shot.
If you go through to the observation, you can see my guesses, but I'm not posting them here in case you want to start without any preconceptions.
For purposes of identification, let's give the turtles numbers:
- #1 is in the front-right
- #2 is front-center
- #3 is front-left
- #4 is the big one behind #2 and #3
- #5 is behind #4
- #6 is in the back-right
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The photos were taken at Marsh Creek State Park on April 5.
Post your guesses in the comments, and let's see if we reach a consensus.
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Unless otherwise noted, all photos above were taken by me with a Nikon P1000 camera. I'm sharing them under the CC BY 4.0 license (share & adapt freely with attribution to the original source).