image: Satellite tag attachment activities on a nesting hawksbill, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras.
Credit: ProTECTOR, Inc., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Critically endangered hawksbill turtles migrate up to 1,000km from nesting to foraging grounds in the Western Caribbean, riding with and against ocean currents to congregate in popular feeding hotspots
Article URL: https://plos.io/41LfJZK
Article title: Inter-nesting area use, migratory routes, and foraging grounds for hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Western Caribbean
Author countries: US, Honduras, Costa Rica
Funding: Funding for this project was provided by the Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund to QDB, the Sonoma County Community Foundation to CED, the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Conservation Fund and the Jack Schrey Distinguished Professor Funds to FVP, the USFWS Marine Turtle Conservation Fund Grant #611510 under the direction of Earl Possardt to SGD, the Department of Earth and Biological Sciences at Loma Linda University to SGD, as well as the California Turtle and Tortoise Club Inland Empire Chapter to SGD.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Inter-nesting area use, migratory routes, and foraging grounds for hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Western Caribbean
Article Publication Date
12-Mar-2025
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.