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title: "Stomach contents of seven Short-tailed Albatrosses caught as by-catch identified as squid and fish"
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# Stomach contents of seven Short-tailed Albatrosses caught as by-catch identified as squid and fish

William Walker (National Marine Mammal Laboratory, [Alaska Fisheries Science Center](http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/), National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, Washington, USA) and colleagues have published on-line and open-access in the journal *[Marine Ornithology](http://www.marineornithology.org)* on the stomach contents of by-caught Short-Tailed Albatrosses *Phoebastria albatrus*.

 Prey identified included squid and fish.  The paper concludes: “The results of our Short-tailed Albatross study … leads us to conclude that the Short-tailed Albatross probably … employs surface scavenging as a primary foraging strategy in the eastern Bering Sea and California Current System.”

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/short-tailed_albatrosses_aleutians_rob_suryan.jpg)

 Short-tailed Albatrosses at sea, photograph by Rob Suryan

 **Reference:**

 Walker, W.A., Fitzgerald, S.M. & Collins, P.W. 2015.  Stomach contents of seven Short-Tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus* in the eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea.  [*Marine Ornithology* 43: 169-172](http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/43_2/43_2_169-172.pdf).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 17 October 2015*