During the months of June and July, the two separate worlds of bird and fish dramatically come together at French Frigate Shoals, in the NW Hawaiian Islands. In a reversal of what is usually "bird eats fish", hungry Tiger Sharks prowl the waters around the Shoal's small islands looking for albatross chicks paused in the shallow waters as they learn to fly.

Two species of albatross nest on the small isolated islands around French Frigate Shoals, Laysan and Black Footed albatross. The Tiger Sharks show up every year right on cue, when the fledgling chicks make their first solo flight. Stretching and flapping their wings on shore, these unfledged would be flyers have no idea what awaits them if they waver in their journey seaward. This annual predation has probably been going on for thousands of years.