Turtles
Report your sighting!Blandings Turtle

- 12.5-18 cm; record 27.4cm
- Carapace black to greyish-brown with numerous yellowish spots or streaks
- Plastron has a flexible grooved hinge that allows lower shell to close upward to protect head and legs
- Bright yellow on chin and throat
- Protruding eyes
- Domed shell obvious while it basks on logs, rocks or clumps of vegetation
- Lays 6-11 oval, dull white, hard-shelled eggs
- THREATENED
