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Lyrebird learns rooster call

To: "david taylor" <>, "Birding Aus" <>
Subject: Lyrebird learns rooster call
From: "Ross Macfarlane" <>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:14:47 +1100
As I recall HANZAB suggests it may take a lyrebird 6 months to learn a call. I read it idly at my Dad's place a year or so ago so more than likely my memory is faulty.

It was a bit cynical re the bird in David Attenborough's Life Of Birds mimicking chainsaws, cameras and car alarms, as apparently this bird was in captivity (I'm guessing Healesville?)




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