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Flying fish are not established as omnivores by the available diet evidence. A study of eight species found diets made up of copepods and other animal prey; it did not document plant eating. Some species ate a wider variety of animals than others, but a varied animal diet is not the same as an omnivorous one.
What do flying fish eat?
Flying fish, also called flyingfishes, feed on small marine animals. In a 2013 gut-content study, six of the sampled species specialized on copepods, tiny crustaceans that are part of zooplankton. Copepods made up 58.3–96.9% of prey by number in those six species.
Two other sampled species—the whitetip flyingfish and mirrorwing flyingfish—had broader diets. Their stomach contents included amphipods, copepods, molluscs, and larval fish. These are all animal prey.
Why “generalist” does not mean “omnivore”
A generalist eats a wider range of food than a specialist. That range can still consist entirely of animals. Omnivory means eating both animal and plant material; the broader diets reported for whitetip and mirrorwing flyingfish therefore do not, by themselves, show that those fish are omnivores.
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The 2013 study did not establish plant consumption. That is a limit on what the evidence shows, not proof that no flying fish ever eats plant material.
How broad is the evidence?
Van Noord, Lewallen, and Pitman examined gut contents from 359 fish across five genera and eight species. They collected the fish at 50 night-fishing stations in the eastern tropical Pacific between August and November 2007. The findings describe those sampled species, place, and collection period—not every flyingfish species, ocean, season, or life stage. Read the 2013 study record.
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A separate 2018 study examined 11,125 flyingfish from 25 species and all seven named genera in the eastern tropical Pacific. It describes flyingfish as consumers of zooplankton and as mid-trophic participants in tropical epipelagic food webs. It broadens the ecological picture, but does not establish that they eat plants. Read the 2018 study.
A 2025 USGS record describes flyingfish as links between subsurface and aerial predators. Its observations concern habitat and predator relationships, not stomach contents; environmental measurements such as chlorophyll-a are not evidence that flyingfish ate algae. Read the USGS record.
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