loggerhead

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Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Four of the loggerhead turtles were found along the Cornish coast, one was found in Devon and another was rescued at Anglesey in Wales.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

However, several species, such as the San Clemente loggerhead shrike — a robin-sized predator known as the “butcher bird” — remain on the brink of extinction, with just 14 known to be alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

Today it was awesomely pure and bright, and totally safe for an old loggerhead to browse the grassy flats.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen