Australian peacock spider footage – more on peacock spiders

and it might interest birding-aus readers to know that keen Canberra birder and photographer Stuart Harris discovered one of the most recently described species of peacock spider , and has been working with Jurgen Otto on finding out more about these beautiful creatures. There are some gorgeous pics of various peacock spiders at http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/12/meet-most-gorgeous-peacock-spider.html , including the Maratus harrisi which was named after Stuart. He gave a presentation on Maratus harrisi at a Canberra Ornithologists Group meeting last year, and we were all fascinated. sandra henderson’ canberra

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Carl Clifford wrote: > Dear B-A, > > While this is not about birds, this brilliant little Australian spider is > probably part of the diet of several species of Sydney birds. Some great > video footage accompanies the piece. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2013/jan/15/1 > > Cheers, > > Carl Clifford > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== ===============================

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