What, no chain-saws, axe blows, camera shutter or motor-wind? Get with it,
Lyrebird. Wouldn't do for D. Attenborough! :-)
Seriously though, that's a very impressive tally. And all the more valuable
A record, for coming from such a reliable observer. Thanks Carol.
Syd
> From: Carol Probets <>
> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:47:13 +1000
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Winter reflections and lyrebird mimicry
>
> No matter how cold it is, one of the very best things about winter
> here is the lyrebird song. June being the height of lyrebird season,
> during that month I made a few morning trips up to Mt Victoria where
> there are some particularly virtuoso birds. In a gully near Pulpit
> Rock is a male who mimics at least 22 different bird calls, including
> all the usual lyrebird favourites like Eastern Whipbird, Crimson
> Rosella, Gang-gang, Pied Currawong and Golden Whistler, as well as
> things like the Brown Thornbill, White-eared and Yellow-faced
> Honeyeaters, a juvenile currawong being fed, and the hawk-alarm call
> of New Holland Honeyeaters. I also heard it mimic a couple of calls
> that I haven't heard any other lyrebird do: Rockwarbler and
> Red-browed Treecreeper. Several times it mimicked two whipbirds
> calling in unison - something that I've heard whipbirds do
> occasionally with only the slightest difference in timing to reveal
> that it's two birds instead of one. I was also quite amused to hear
> when this lyrebird mimicked Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo, it was
> answered by a distant, real YTBC.
>
> Although the female lyrebirds will still be engaged in nesting
> duties, the males' display has all but petered out now. At the same
> time the Satin Bowerbirds are renovating their bowers and gearing up
> for spring.
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