hawksbill in English

noun
1
a small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
There are two species of sea turtles that mate and nest in the Gulf: the hawksbill and the green turtle, both endangered species.
noun
    hawksbill turtlehawkbill

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2. We recorded hundreds of dolphins and sea birds in the oil slick area, as well as sea snakes and threatened hawksbill and flatback turtles.

3. In the sea there are turtles, like the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle and the leatherback turtle, that lay eggs on Maldivian beaches.

4. A group of 33 young Green, Kemp's Ridley, Hawksbill and Loggerhead sea turtles returned to paddle the briny waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Oct.

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