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Lyrebird learns rooster call

To: "'Ross Macfarlane'" <>, "'Birding Aus'" <>
Subject: Lyrebird learns rooster call
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:11:30 +1100
Hi Ross,

Yes the story you write is correct about the bird in David
Attenborough's Life Of Birds mimicking chainsaws, cameras and car
alarms. This topic has done the rounds on birding aus previously.

Philip



-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Ross Macfarlane
Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:15 PM
To: david taylor; Birding Aus
Subject: Lyrebird learns rooster call


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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