Land birds in the stomachs of tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvieri (Peron and Lesueur)

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri) is a large neritic shark (adults maturing at total lengths exceeding
295 cm) with a tropical-subtropical center of distribution in all major oceans. It regularly includes a
variety of food items in its diet, rendering its feeding habits distinctive from those of other large western
Atlantic carcharhinid and sphyrnid sharks, which are chiefly piscivorous predators.
Published accounts of land bird species in
the stomachs of tiger sharks have been limited to the report of a single Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus
americanus) taken from the stomach of a tiger shark captured on the central Florida Gulf coast (Saunders and Clark 1962, Auk 79: 118).

Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 78

This manuscript is an author version with the final
publication available and may be cited as: Dodrill, J. W., & Gilmore, R. G. (1978). Land birds in the
stomachs of tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvieri (Peron and Lesueur). The Auk, 95(3), 585-586.