Colabuono et al.: Black-browed Albatross consumes a tern 167 Marine Ornithology 34: 167–168 (2006)

Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) feed mostly on cephalopods and fish, caught by surface-seizing or shallow diving (del Hoyo et al. 1992). Other prey items, such as seabirds, are taken only occasionally. In a review of the food of albatrosses, Cherel & Klages (1998) listed at least 12 seabird species of two orders (Sphenisciformes and Procellariiformes) found in the stomach contents of seven albatross species. Albatrosses may take seabirds alive or consume carrion that they probably find floating on the surface of the ocean (Murphy 1936, del Hoyo et al. 1992, Cherel & Klages 1998). We report the finding of remains of a tern Sterna sp. (Charadriiformes: Sternidae) in the stomach contents of a Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris found dead on the beach at São Simão (c