Turtles
Report your sighting!Wood Turtle

- 14-20cm; record 23.4cm
- Brown or greyish-brown, heavily sculptured carapace, often with a central keel or ridge and raised concentric growth rings on each scute
- Rear margin of carapace serrated
- Plastron is yellow with black squares
- Head black; skin brown; adults with orange or yellow on neck and legs
- Found on land (the most terrestrial turtle in Ontario) and in or near streams and wet meadows
- Lays 4-12 oval, white, thin-shelled eggs
- ENDANGERED
