hawksbills 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
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1. Hawksbills are endangered because their beachfront nesting grounds and coral reef feeding grounds are shrinking. Humans also target the turtles for food and shell products.