About 80 diamondback terrapin turtles delayed traffic today at JFK airport in New York for about 90 minutes. You can read more here. I guess not such exciting news, if you live in Hawaii or Ecuador, but this is New York City! Who knew that we had anything approaching a sea turtle here! OK, so technically, diamondback terrapin live in brackish water, so they are not sea turtles, but still impressive nonetheless. (For the curious, it turns out we actually do have sea turtles here in the New York area, but they prefer to not hang out at the airport.)I wonder how many folks were on flights at the moment to places where they planned to view sea turtles? Having gone on a few supposed sea turtle viewing adventures that turned out to be a bust, this might be the only turtles that they actually get to see in the wild on their trip. Hope that they took some good photos.
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