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Lyrebirds along the Murray

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Subject: Lyrebirds along the Murray
From: John Boyce <>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:11:23 +1000
Yes I thought the record seemed highly unusual. They are pretty confident on the identification and one of them has photographed many lyrebirds before around Kinglake and the Dandenongs so is reasonably sure of the ID. But it was not a live bird just tail feathers and some associated other feathers so could have come from somewhere else I guess and a you can never be sure of a second hand sighting. Unfortunately they didn't take a picture so I can't confirm the ID.
John

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John Boyce wrote:


Hi everyone,

Some friends just returned from a canoeing weekend along the Murray around Barmah and said that they had found a dead lyrebird by the river near one of their campsites. I was surprised to hear there were lyrebirds that far west along the Murray but some of the maps in my field guides suggest that they can maybe go even further. So are lyrebirds regularly reported in this area and has anyone seen them any further west along the Murray?



John
there is no lyrebird population anywhere near Barmah - they do not inhabit River Red Gum Forest. My guess is that the nearest populations would be in the Mt Samaria State Park or thereabouts, about 140 km to the south-east of Barmah on the north-western slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Along the Murray itself you would have to go upstream of Albury before finding lyrebirds.

How sure are your friends of the identification? - hard to mistake a lyrebird, but its a very odd record.

Peter Menkhorst
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