Written by Julie Landry
Special to The News-Star
Since the beginning of May, María Fernanda Blanco Pérez has taken more than 2,500 photographs of turtles and other animals at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
As an intern for University of Louisiana at Monroe biology professor John Carr, Blanco studies the nesting habits of soft-shelled turtles in Black Bayou Lake, and her photographs tell the story, he said.
“She is doing a great job — putting in tremendous effort,” said Carr. “She is getting some very interesting information.”
Her research under Carr’s supervision is a spin-off project of his work with alligator snapping turtles at Black Bayou Lake, sponsored by the Friends of Black Bayou. “I’ve known about an area used heavily for nesting by soft-shelled turtles for many years, but I never had anyone dedicated to looking at the soft-shells. Now we are getting an idea of what is going on with the nesting there — when they nest, how long it takes, and how the turtle nests are destroyed by predators at an alarming rate.”
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