The French Guiana nesting subpopulation nests from March to June. Beeches and oaks produced the mast needed to support nesting and roosting flocks. Another important habitat factor is nesting sites. Habitat loss usually occurs due to human development of nesting areas. Related to nesting habitat, urbanization or planting can remove needed sunny soils. The idea is that humans thereby appear less of a threat to the nesting birds. They provide ideal spawning and nesting grounds. Entire generations often migrate between one pair of feeding and nesting areas. Males exhibit agonistic behavior both on and off breeding and nesting grounds. Beavers maintain and defend territories, which are areas for feeding, nesting and mating. Optimum temperatures for nesting and spawning range between . Courtship took place at the nesting colony. They breed in deciduous forests good for nesting and forage primarily in wetlands and meadows. Climate change has an impact on turtle nesting sites. It is unknown whether colonies re-nested after a successful nesting.