birdeater

• bird-eater, bird eater

By surface analysis, bird +‎ eater. Compare translingual Avicularia.

birdeater (plural birdeaters)

1. (literally, rare) Anything which eats birds.
2. Any of certain large tarantulas which occasionally (though very rarely) eat hummingbirds, especially of the genera Avicularia and Theraphosa, the latter of which contains the Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi).

• Though not technically a misnomer, such spiders feed on birds very infrequently. They instead tend to prefer invertebrates or small terrestrial or arboreal vertebrates such as frogs.

• burgundy goliath birdeater (Theraphosa stirmi)
• Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi)