Painted Turtle - Sioux Falls, South Dakota - Turtle Crossings on Waymarking.com

This turtle was slowly crossing the road near the Terrace Park in Sioux Falls (South Dakota) USA. We tried to pick up and help it to cross, but suddenly, it started to move really fast! Just have time to take two or three pictures and it disappeared heading in the direction of the lake.
Latter, we identified it as a western painted turtle.

The painted turtle is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Scientific name: Chrysemys picta
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Chrysemys
Symbol of: Michigan, Illinois, Colorado

Source: Wikipedia

Species Link: [Web Link] How often turtles cross: Months most seen crossing: april, may

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Date Logged Log User Rating   03/29/2017 EJKPBR visited it