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lyrebirds in trees

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Subject: lyrebirds in trees
From: "Susan Robertson" <>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:03:05 +1100

Many years ago, at Double Creek at Mallacoota there was a lyrebird nesting high in a eucalypt.  It hopped up to the nest branch by branch and glided to the ground when it left.  We thought that perhaps lyrebirds had developed that strategy over  years as a defence against predators like foxes.

Susan Robertson

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