Re: Lyrebird imitating construction at Adelaide Zoo...

["Peter Shute" pshute2]

Do you have a link for a clip showing a lyrebird "talking"? The only ones I=
've seen are fakes. Is there an official one you're referring to?=0D
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I was lucky enough to see and hear a lyrebird displaying a few days ago. It=
 was at the bottom of a gully below a track I was walking on near Mt Hotham=
 in Victoria, and by fluke I found a spot where I could just see it through=
 a gap in the trees.=0D
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I've often heard them without seeing them, and even have a video of a bush =
with a bird displaying invisibly behind it just a few metres away, but have=
 only seen them crossing roads before.=0D
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They can be a nuisance if you're trying to record other species that you ca=
n't see.=0D
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Peter Shute=0D
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I liked that bird! We listened to one of the clips a couple of years ago.=
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If you listen, the bird goes into speech in several sections. Last time it =
was around, I challanged anyone who could to decode the bird's speech, but =
no one else did. I contacted some folks in Australia about Lyrebirds. Inter=
esting, there is a clip with Attenborough telling about the bird, and the L=
yrebird appears to repeat his speech spontaneously---a very curious thing. =
Birds can learn a sound with a single hearing. Parrots learn words with one=
 hearing, and occasionally learn the meaning on a single pass too.=0D
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Mike=0D
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www.ParrotSpeech.com=0D
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Re: Lyrebird imitating construction at Adelaide Zoo... Digest Numbe=0D
Posted by: "jtudor2005" <john%40tudorfarm.net.a=
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Chook, the Adelaide Zoo's talking Lyrebird has died at age 32.=0D
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