Mark B Bartosik
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Although I am more interested in Least Tern behavior (in this case as well) catching on film ’flying’ spider landing on the bird and after short moment taking off and sailing away was a nice addition to this day in the field.
Included photos are stills from the video (so quality is not so good) but one can watch (if interested) the video clip here (Least Tern was intrigued by the spider presence but took no action):
https://youtu.be/lAaSqH565Rg
I am in process to identify the spider; there are many ‘flying’ spiders traveling with silk strand (visible in video as it anchored to tail feathers) but I hope it will be possible to ID this species to genus or family from the poor photos.
Included photos are stills from the video (so quality is not so good) but one can watch (if interested) the video clip here (Least Tern was intrigued by the spider presence but took no action):
https://youtu.be/lAaSqH565Rg
I am in process to identify the spider; there are many ‘flying’ spiders traveling with silk strand (visible in video as it anchored to tail feathers) but I hope it will be possible to ID this species to genus or family from the poor photos.
