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Table 8. Diets of albatrosses and petrels in different localities (x = major prey, o = minor prey, and 



= incidental prey species). 



Laysan albatross (D. immutabilis) 

 No. Pacific (Palmer 1962; Bartsch 1922; 

 Fisher 1904) x 



Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) 



Pribilof Islands (Preble and McAtee 1923) o x 



Alaska (Gabrielson and Lincoln 1959) x x x 



Oregon (Gabrielson and Jewett 1940) x 



No. Atlantic (Hartley and Fisher 1936; x x 



Einarsson 1945; Fisher 1952) 



Flesh-footed shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) 

 Australia (Oliver 1955; Serventy et al. 1971) x x x 



Pink- footed shearwater (P. creatopus) 

 California (Murphy 1936; Ainley, x x 



personal observation) 

 E. Pacific (Cottam and Knappen 1939) x x 



Buller's shearwater (P. bulleri) 



SW Pacific (Falla 1934; Serventy etal. 1971) x x x 



Peru (Murphy 1936) x 



Sooty shearwater (P. griseus) 



Aleutian Islands (Sanger, personal observation) x x x 



British Columbia (Martin 1942; Sealy 1973a) x x x 



Oregon (Gabrielson and Jewett 1940) x 



California (Ainley, personal observation) x x 



Peru (Murphy 1936) x x x 



SW Pacific (Oliver 1955; Serventy etal. 1971) x x x 



Short- tailed shearwater (P. tenuirostris) 

 Bristol Bay (Bartonek, personal communication) x 



Alaska (Cottam and Knappen 1939) x x x o 



No. Pacific (Palmer 1962; Kuroda 1955) x x x 



Australia (Serventy etal. 1971) x x x 



Bass Strait (Sheard 1953) x 



Mottled petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) 



Pacific Ocean (Imber 1973) x 



E. No. Pacific (Kuroda 1955) x 



Fork-tailed storm-petrel (Oceanodroma furcata) 



Pribilof Islands (Preble and McAtee 1923) x 



SE Alaska (Heath 1915) x 



British Columbia (Martin 1942) x 



California (Ainley, personal observation) x 



Leach's storm-petrel (O. leucorhoa) 



SE Alaska (Heath 1915) x 



California (PRBO, unpublished data) x x x x x 



So. California (Palmer 1962) x 

 No. Atlantic 8 (Palmer 1962) x __! c _. x x x 



"Offal from wounded whales and seals, and bits of food, primarily crustaceans and fish, from feeding whales are 

 important scavenger foods (Bent 1922). 



