The return of female sea turtles, often after years or decades at sea, to nest on the same beach, or one very close to it, where they themselves hatched, guided by a magnetic sense that allows them to navigate thousands of kilometers of open ocean back to a natal shoreline. Species such as the green turtle and loggerhead may migrate over a thousand kilometers between foraging grounds and nesting beaches, laying multiple clutches of eggs across a single nesting season before returning to distant feeding areas for another one to several years.
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Arribada is the specific term for a mass, synchronized nesting event in species such as the olive ridley and Kemp's ridley sea turtles, a distinctive form of the broader sea turtle nesting migration.
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