I'm sorry to shatter your anti-bird fantasy (though in
general I do agree that birds are a biblical-level evil),
but the spider rarely if ever eats birds.
http://www.wcsscience.com/biggest/spider.html
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=51536
Originally posted by One of those pages
Goliath Birdeater does not eat birds; it eats invertebrates such as crickets and mealworms, and also small vertebrates such as mice and lizards
Good enough for me, as long as I can feed some sort of small, fuzzy or feathery animal to my spider, it's cool as all hell.