The Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project (JBHP) research team collaborated to publish an update on the population trend for the hawksbill rookery at Long Island, Antigua. We view these updates as extremely important, given the JBHP’s unique long-term dataset built via intensive monitoring throughout the full course of nesting seasons dating back to 1987. This dataset makes it an “index beach” for the Caribbean region. Our article shows a potentially concerning change in population dynamics starting in ~2014, though it is too early to tell whether this is “normal population stabilization” or cause for alarm. Next up is an effort to explore this trend more deeply via mark-recpature modeling, building on work by Kendall et al. (2019).