In teh recnet issue of Dutch birding (a magazine for twitchers in The
Netherlands) is a short aticle and a photo of a praying mantis preing on
robins and flyctchers which were caught in mistnets to be ringed. It
happende in the Ebro Delta (Spain) where each autumn there is a riniging
campaign.
The mantis seems to be killing the birds (when they are head-down in the
lower sections of the net) by eating its way to the cranial cavity through
an eye!, Sorry but that's just how it is.
This is recorde over there for 8 birds. It is recorde before just 3 or 4
times.
I also witnessed a Kookaburra catching, kiling and eating an Brown
Honeyeater at Daintree (Qld) august 2005.
Cheers,
Leo van Brunschot
The Netherlands
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