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- noun Plural form of
hawksbill .
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RIMINTON: 11 hawksbills and you've got just these two ...
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All six marine turtle species that dwell in American waters are categorized as threatened or endangered on the federal Endangered Species List: loggerheads, leatherbacks, hawksbills, olive ridleys, Kemp's ridleys and green sea turtles.
NYT > Home Page By LESLIE KAUFMAN 2011
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Despite hundreds of sea turtle projects and scientists focusing efforts in the region, no one had located hawksbills.
BBC News - Home 2011
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"For upwards of five decades sea turtle scientists thought hawksbills had disappeared from the eastern Pacific Ocean", Dr Gaos told BBC Nature.
BBC News - Home 2011
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"Couple that with the fact that there are very few individuals left - hawksbills in the eastern Pacific are one of the world's most endangered sea turtle populations - and it's no wonder researchers didn't know about them!"
BBC News - Home 2011
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Our findings help explain this… it's hard to spot hawksbills in mangrove estuaries.
BBC News - Home 2011
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He and his colleagues tracked hawksbills in four countries - El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador - using satellite tracking tags glued to the turtles' backs.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Nature Seychelles has observed hundreds of female hawksbills nesting on the island - though disappointingly there were none around on the day of my visit.
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In addition to the Kemp's ridley, four other endangered sea turtle species are found in the Gulf of Mexico: greens, loggerheads, hawksbills and leatherbacks.
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Nature Seychelles has observed hundreds of female hawksbills nesting on the island - though disappointingly there were none around on the day of my visit.
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