Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell.
1Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
2It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
3Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
4Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependent on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change.
5The Hawksbill Turtle is distinguished by the hawk-like appearance of its head.
6The Conservancy began attaching satellite tags to 10 hawksbill turtles in mid-April, the start of the peak nesting season.
7Baby hawksbill turtles at a hatchery in the Malaysian state of Malacca, February 8, 2007.
8There are only about 15,000 female hawksbill turtles worldwide, according to a 2005 estimate by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service.
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