Around 35 years ago some family friends gave me a reel-to-reel tape (!) that
they'd made of a Lyrebird that they had seen at Sherbrooke Forest. The tape
included mimicry of all the usual wet rainforest suspects, but many other
sounds including camera shutters, a chainsaw and several other mechanical
sounds that we never could identify - possibly car doors being closed.
I have no doubt that wild lyrebirds are more than capable of picking up
these sounds and mimicking them. I suspect that the main difference with a
captive bird is that the captive one will pick the sounds up faster.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria
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Subject: Lyrebird learns rooster call
It's a long time since I saw it, but the Healesville bird was surely
used as it demonstrated the Lyrebird's incredible capacity for mimicry
and the repertoire that a Lyebird can acheive, even if in the wild
it's unlikely to be exposed to all those noises?
Cheers
Tom Wilson
Quoting Philip Veerman <>:
> Hi Ross,
>
> Yes the story you write is correct about the bird in David
> Attenborough's Life Of Birds mimicking chainsaws, cameras and car
> alarms. This topic has done the rounds on birding aus previously.
>
> Philip
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Ross Macfarlane
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:15 PM
> To: david taylor; Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Lyrebird learns rooster call
>
>
> As I recall HANZAB suggests it may take a lyrebird 6 months to learn a
> call.
> I read it idly at my Dad's place a year or so ago so more than likely my
>
> memory is faulty.
>
> It was a bit cynical re the bird in David Attenborough's Life Of Birds
> mimicking chainsaws, cameras and car alarms, as apparently this bird was
> in
> captivity (I'm guessing Healesville?)
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