I well remember seeing that sequence of David Attenborough's
camera-imitating Lyrebird - and for half a second I also recognized a
glimpse of part of the aviary structure (I know that aviary very well).
A much earlier Lyrebird in that aviary was a hand-reared bird, whose
repertoire included a muttered "Hullo Chook" (that was his name). He
was of course useless in a breeding program being imprinted on humans.
All the same it was a marvellous moment when he flew onto my arm and
looked me in the face for a moment! He was softly singing his assorted
subsong repertoire at the time - including Magpies and Black Cockatoos.
Given the appalling difficulties of making a nature film series for
TV and the small time allowed to do so, I don't begrudge David
Attenborough the use of captive fauna at times. At least the BBC does
its best to be accurate, and it opens our eyes to the wonderful things
we are unlikely to see for ourselves.
Anthea Fleming
Carol Probets wrote:
Carl and others,
There was a thread about this some years ago which would be in the
Birding-Aus archives. Apparently the David Attenborough lyrebird was a
captive bird at Healesville Sanctuary and was raised in an environment
where it heard these sounds frequently during its song-learning phase.
Cheers
Carol
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So, does that mean that the David Attenbourough footage of a Lyrebird
imitating a camera shutter release. motor drive and a chain-saw was a
fake ?
Carl Clifford
On 09/04/2007, at 12:24 AM, Syd Curtis wrote:
"May I repeat Norman's plea: If anyone has a recording of a
lyrebird in the
wild, imitating mechanical sounds, I would be grateful to hear from
them."
Cheers
Syd
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