Lyrebirds burying their feathers?

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On a couple of occasions I have found Lyrebird feathers, so this habit can’t be 100% efficient.

John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
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On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 6:56 PM David McDonald (Personal) via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

In Libby Robin’s wonderful book What Birdo is that? A field guide to bird-people (MUP 2023), we read that the Superb Lyrebird ‘… takes the trouble to bury its discarded feathers …’ (p. 74). This behaviour does not seem to be documented in HANZAB, nor can I find it in Pauline Reilly’s The Lyrebird: a natural history (NSW UP 1988).

Does anyone have any gen on this behaviour?

David

 

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