Alaska Cod Are Eating Seabirds But How?

Alaska Cod Are Eating Seabirds But How?

~!!!~ The fish workers sent the bird parts to researchers at the Alaska SeaLifeCenter, who, with colleagues from the University of Alaska, have published their findings in the journal Marine Ornithology// This is not the first time that large predatory fish have been recorded as eating birds: previous examples include monkfish eating little auks, catfish grabbing pigeons, and even African freshwater tigerfish leaping out of the water to catch a swallow in flight// 

~!!!~There have also been occasional previous records of seabird parts in Pacific cod caught around the Aleutian Islands// But study co~author Tuula Hollmen told Yereth Rosen of Alaska Dispatch Newsthat **the evidence from Dutch Harbor appears to be the first documentation of Pacific cod making a practice of eating birds//**