NOUN
- pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
How To Use hawksbill In A Sentence
- Whales, rare green sea turtles, and hawksbill turtles also ply these aquamarine waters, along with nine species of sea snakes, some lethal. Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise, Part 2
- Pearl has a well - known commodities, horn , hawksbill , ivory and so on.
- The islands are important for two species of sea turtle: green turtle Chelonia mydas (EN) and hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata (CR) which are common in the surrounding waters, with the former nesting on sandy beaches. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
- For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for their carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell.
- They might decide to visit the Turtle Island park, a famous breeding ground for green and hawksbill turtles.
- On many nights, endangered hawksbill and green sea turtles crawl onto the beach to lay their eggs.
- Officers at the center said they cultivate 2 types of baby sea turtles; the lays turtle and the hawksbill turtle.
- Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
- Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
- The hawksbill sea turtle population in the Gulf of Thailand is small and in danger of extinction because of illegal fishing and the mammals' limited ability to reproduce.