Flying-fish eggs floating on the surface are the main part of the black-footed albatross diet, but the birds also snatch flying fish as they flit past.

"Geez," Gunnar said as he held out the first piece and the bird snatched it, "you'd think I've been starving you."

A few birds I snatched out of the air.

Frito yelped as the great bird swooped bow and snatched them both from death with its rubberized talons.

(As lines of baited hooks head for the bottom, the birds snatch at the bait, sometimes getting hooked, and then are pulled under and drowned.)

The quicker birds snatched morsels on the wing and gulped them down greedily.

The bird snatched at them as futilely; she ducked as one of its claws tangled in her hair.

There were murmurs and questions all around as we watched the bird snatch its breakfast.

Gars howled as the birds swooped up and pecked flies off their bellies, or snatched them from the air.

Just before the bird snatched his eyeball from its socket, Ed thought he recognized a face looming above him.