🔥 If you can spare 2 minutes, you will hear this Lyre Bird…
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🔥 If you can spare 2 minutes, you will hear this Lyre Bird on my farm in Australia imitating over a dozen native birds
We own what started as an overgrazed ex-cattle property in Australia that we are regenerating into native forest and bushland. 14 years of tree planting, erosion control, weed management and feral animal removal. Our reward has been to see the return of a huge amount of native birds and animals, as the trees and natural plants grow back.
This is a male Lyre Bird, so called because of its magnificent tail. Each winter he builds a courtship mound and competes with other males by imitating the sounds of other native birds. The more diverse and accurate his repertoire, the more success he will have with the ladies. And that means the next generation is automatically selected to be the best singers as well, so the cycle continues.
When we clear weeds, I come across these mounds by an accident, hidden in the undergrowth. I set up a motion-activated wildlife camera and check back after a week or so. I have so sift through hundreds of video clips of tree branches waving, wallabies, kangaroos, and other imposters until I finally come across the clip of a lyre bird doing its song and dance.
The first 40 seconds or so of this clip is the lyre bird's natural call. The remainder is him imitating a magpie, currawong, satin bower bird, black cockatoo, koel, golden whistler and a whip bird. Quite a few more than I can't identify.
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We own what started as an overgrazed ex-cattle property in Australia that we are regenerating into native forest and bushland. 14 years of tree planting, erosion control, weed management and feral animal removal. Our reward has been to see the return of a huge amount of native birds and animals, as the trees and natural plants grow back.
This is a male Lyre Bird, so called because of its magnificent tail. Each winter he builds a courtship mound and competes with other males by imitating the sounds of other native birds. The more diverse and accurate his repertoire, the more success he will have with the ladies. And that means the next generation is automatically selected to be the best singers as well, so the cycle continues.
When we clear weeds, I come across these mounds by an accident, hidden in the undergrowth. I set up a motion-activated wildlife camera and check back after a week or so. I have so sift through hundreds of video clips of tree branches waving, wallabies, kangaroos, and other imposters until I finally come across the clip of a lyre bird doing its song and dance.
The first 40 seconds or so of this clip is the lyre bird's natural call. The remainder is him imitating a magpie, currawong, satin bower bird, black cockatoo, koel, golden whistler and a whip bird. Quite a few more than I can't identify.
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