loggerhead
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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
An estimated 25 bird species, including ladder-backed woodpeckers, loggerhead shrikes and western screech owls, nest in their trunks and branches.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2024
An injured loggerhead sea turtle has been released back into the wild.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 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
The loggerhead obviously didn’t know it was swimming in filth.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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