Meet the lyrebird, world famous for their near-perfect imitations. This lyrebird resides at the Taronga Zoo, and has been around enough children to mimic crying with incredible accuracy 🤯 In the wild, when a lyrebird mother feels threatened she will often imitate the calls of larger avian predators to frighten or confuse, and draw the burglar away from the nest. Protecting the nest is a high-stakes game, and defenses are limited. Each year the female lays just one egg. This chick takes six week

1.4M views · 42K reactions | Here's a side by side comparison of a lyrebird and two of the original birds that he copies (the Australian magpie and eastern whipbird) #magpie #australianmagpie #lyrebird #superblyrebird #easternwhipbird #whipbird #australianbirds #birdsofaustralia | Jeremy Films Things | Facebook

946K views · 42K reactions | Sound on for this. Lyrebirds are masters of mimicry and can imitate almost anything, even chainsaws and building sites. How they and other bird species do this has been a mystery - until now. | New Scientist | Facebook

The vocalisations of the superb lyrebird stretch beyond simply imitating other birds. In its efforts to woo a mate, the male of this resplendent species can imitate human technology, too – from camera shutters to chainsaws. | National Geographic UK

704K views · 15K reactions | Wow!  The Lyrebird is the best impersonator in the world: it can mimick other birds, but also camera shutters, car alarms — anything, basically. Can you pick what it is mimicking? 樂 : Four Finger Photography #abcmyvideo Adelaide Zoo | ABC Adelaide | Facebook

Species Of The Week - Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) 🐦‍⬛🔊 The Superb Lyrebird might look like a large brown pheasant, but it sounds like... well, almost anything it wants. This clever bird lives in the south-eastern Australian mainland and southern Tasmania in moist forests and uses its clever mimicry skills to attract a mate. A lyrebird's song can include anything heard in the bird's immediate surroundings, such as chainsaws, car engines and dog bark, but they mostly mimic other bir