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title: "Common Bird-dropping Spider"
description: "Celaenia excavata — Insetos e aranhas. Celaenia excavata, the bird dropping spider of Australia and New Zealand, derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/common-bird-dropping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Bird-dropping Spider

> Celaenia excavata — Insetos e aranhas. Celaenia excavata, the bird dropping spider of Australia and New Zealand, derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds.

- Scientific name: *Celaenia excavata*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1482
- Wikidata: [Q4289148](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4289148)
- iNaturalist taxon: [409761](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/409761)

## Names

- en: Common Bird-dropping Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1039), NZ (172)

## Summary

Celaenia excavata, the bird dropping spider of Australia and New Zealand, derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celaenia_excavata

## Photo

![Common Bird-dropping Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-bird-dropping-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Claudia Schipp · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/77526123

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-bird-dropping-spider?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).