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Red Eared Slider Turtle, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson Arizona desert #119516027
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Red-eared slider turtle in duckweed swamp bog. Photographed in Sweetwater Wetlands, a reclaimed wastewater treatment facility managed for wildlife habitat in Tucson, Arizona. It is a stream riparian oasis in the southwestern desert. Duckweed filled ponds are surrounded by Cottonwood, Willow, Saltbush, Bulrush, Cattail, Mesquite and Wolfberry. Photographed in June 2018.