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Bird eating spider?

To: "'David Stowe'" <>
Subject: Bird eating spider?
From: "Steve" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:17:48 +1000
Dave....No. Because it wasn't a Bird-eating spider's web. Interfering with
nature, maybe. But I don't think there would be many birders that could walk
past a struggling finch and not do anything.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: David Stowe  
Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2008 8:12 PM
To: Steve
Cc: 'Belinda Cassidy'; 
Subject: Bird eating spider?

Hi Steve,
Can i cheekily suggest that by "rescuing" the finch you were indeed  
championing the cause of birds over other animals?
It died anyway and the spider lost a meal that it caught fair and  
square :)

Cheers
Dave Stowe


On 16/03/2008, at 7:46 AM, Steve wrote:

> Belinda......The other day I rescued a Double-barred Finch from  
> Spiderweb.
> The bird was totally exhausted and,unfortunately, died shortly  
> after. This
> was very sad. But it would not have occurred to me to kill the  
> spider. My
> advice is to have equal regard for all native creatures and not  
> champion the
> causes of birds over other animals.
>
> Cheers Steve Murray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Belinda  
> Cassidy
> Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2008 6:47 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Bird eating spider?
>
> Hello!
>
> We have an enormous spider in our yard (in Brisbane) that we  
> haven't seen
> before. Its spectacular,  with a body length around 7-8 cm.  I  
> think I have
> ID'd it correctly as `Nephila pilipes' The Northern Giant Orb  
> spider. The
> link to the photo I took of it today is below:
>
> http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/SPIDER.jpg
>
> So when I was trying to ID it on google, I came across a youtube  
> video of
> one of these eating a young lewin honeyeater that it had trapped in  
> its
> nest. OMG!
>
> We are friends with our local birds and wouldn't want to see them  
> eaten by a
> giant spider! But its also a  very cool giant spider!
>
> Should we kill it to stop it from eating birds and breedng up a  
> colony of
> giant bird eating spiders? Or just leave it? I don't want to kill  
> it, but
> then I'd feel pretty cut if a young bird I know died in its web.
>
> Thanks for your opinions!
>
> Cheers,
> Belinda
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