The Superb Lyrebird - Song Breakdown
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2019
- The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is the arguably the finest songster in the world. Famed for its ability to imitate almost any sound it hears, the Lyrebird has been incorporating the calls of other birds long before adding chainsaws and cameras to its repertoire. In this 7 minute clip taken in Dhurug National Park NSW (Australia), we break down the amazing variety of bird calls a single lyrebird can replicate in its song.
List of species imitated in this recording:
Grey Butcherbird
Laughing Kookaburra
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Australian King Parrot
Pied Currawong
Little Wattlebird
Satin Bowerbird
Eastern Whipbird
Lewin's Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Crimson Rosella
Grey Shrikethrush
Noisy Miner
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
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Sound Attributions -
Superb Lyrebird -www.xeno-canto.org/368459
Image Attributions -
Grey Butcherbird -www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/...
Laughing Kookaburra -pixabay.com/photos/laughing-k...
Yellow-faced Honeyeater -commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Australian King Parrot -upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Pied Currawong - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Noisy Friarbird -
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Little Wattlebird -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
Satin Bowerbird - pixabay.com/photos/satin-bowe...
Eastern Whipbird -
www.flickr.com/photos/kookr/5...
Lewin’s Honeyeater - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Grey Shrikethrush -
Noisy Miner - www.flickr.com/photos/1341315...
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo - www.flickr.com/photos/kookr/9...
White-eared Honeyeater-
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
So basically that's a mixtape
LOL so funny and true
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Thyine old mixtapes,though in a way I heard a story of a man owning a lyrebird that mimicked his flute music,some say the birds ancestors still play that fire mixtape flute music.
Anyone: "What was that sound?"
Me: "Probably a Lyrebird."
*Do you have any idea of how little that narrows it down*
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I have one opposite where I live that does car alarms, chainsaws, doorbell lol
I would play the Star Wars theme all day! or R2d2 sounds. just to let him mimic that... 😁
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@@Shadowstar79 LOL so funny and true i LOVE that IDEA
Oh wow its beautiful bird
I'm assuming then that you are in Australia
If anyone is wondering, it sounds like there are also bellbirds in the background of this audio
You are correct, there was Bellbirds singing in the background of the recording
I love the sound of Bellbirds (or Bell miners)
*_He sings the most complex song he can manage._*
And even the originals are often fooled! I had the pleasure of enjoying a male lyrebird quite humorously toy with a Lewin's honeyeater just last week at Toolangi State Forest. Great collection of calls and thank you to all of the contributors!
One day grandpa was peacefully sitting in the park under shade of trees.
Suddenly a voice rang out "They're behind the trees"
And grandpa was never the same again
This bird is just a really good bird comedian who does impressions of other birds in his stand up
I absolutely adore these birds. They’re so cool! They basically create a mixtape to impress their mate!
truly amazing unique creature of australia so what natural
sound does the lyrebird make
The natural song was interspersed with it's mimicry
Try 4.25.
The best time to catch its natural sound is when they are young, just past the age of chick's before they have learnt to mimic. Once they have learnt to mimic other sounds they mostly use them for mating rituals, but it is not uncommon for them to use it at other times, too. 🙂
The lyrebird is one of nature's precious gifts. ❤️🌳
Incredible...
Ever since I first watched a film of this bird mimicking such sounds as chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, car engines, and dynamite explosions, it has held a special place in my heart.
Thanks for making this video about it. If I may suggest, perhaps you could do a video about the most spectacular and strange avian mating displays. I wish you all the best and eagerly await your next production.
Thank you for your comment and we welcome ideas. That would certainly make a good video, we will keep our eyes peeled for usable footage. All the best. Bird kind🦅
fantastic memory; fantastic playlist - bird brain has new meaning for me - size does not count -
they are multilingual!!! Is there a human that knows that many 'languages'? wow
very well done, they are not only visually attractive birds with their own pleasing call but I am sure with that vocal repertoire they could also moonlight on radio shows too!
Many thanks! I'd certainly tune in
Had one of these making really loud squeaking/clicking noises out the back at 6 AM the other day
This is the most agreeable video ever, but they have quite a scary noise when they go full blown.
Also I’ve been lucky enough to see one up close outside me bedroom window
Could listen to this lyrebird all day!
Thank you for this beautiful video. It has made a pretty crappy day a lot better. Straight back to taking car trips to my Gran’s in Gosford. About three quaters of the way between Newcastle and Gosford my parents would slow the car a bit and we’d roll down the windows to hear the Bellbirds and Lyrebirds. Thank you so much for a lovely trip down memory lane.
A belated thank you for your comment. I'm glad the video helped bring nostalgia and solace.
@@birdkind it continues to bring joy. Just watched it again. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful projects.
Not only are they incredible mimics, but they look insanely unique too! That tail is something else haha
I'd love to see one of these things interact with a raven or a starling and have them mimic it, imagine the confusion for both parties 😅
When you don't have room in your aviary for every species, this guy knows how to fix that problem.
I FVCKING LOVE LYREBIRDS
I swear there's bird in my front yard that sings crazy songs like this and it is simply beautiful.
Could be a Grey Butcherbird. They are great mimics as well but fairly quite, like they are singing to themselves. Magpies mimic also but not as much as Butcherbirds.
If you live in the US it’s likely a mockingbird they have similar massive repertoires
I have all of these birds and many more on my property on the Mid North Coast of NSW except for the noisy miner and the lyrebird itself! I saw a video the other day of a lyrebird at Taronga Zoo perfectly mimicking the sound of a crying baby, it was uncanny! Thank you for all your effort in making these videos. Cheers from Oz! 🦘
What a wonderful place to live. I visited NSW in 2017 and was astounded by the diversity of bird species. Still considering moving there in the future! A belated thank you for the positive feedback.
Simply astounding! Humbling to learn about the superb abilities of birds. Thanks for sharing!
Your channel is incredibly chill
Need to go out to Australia and see this crazy bird. Great name for a channel by the way.
Many thanks!
I was lucky enough to see one in the Taranga Zoo in Sydney. It had picked up a woman making a microphone announcement, among other snags in it's repertoire!
Absolutely stunning! 🏆
It's funny we humans look for artificial ways to entertain ourselves, yet the natural world is far more interesting than anything we can come up with, the Lyrebird is a great case in point !
Please do the mockingbird too!!
We shall certainly consider it. Thank you for your suggestion
I heard a mockingbird outside my window do a version of a Jethro Tull song.
It was strange but good.
Love your work. Thanks so much!
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed the video
I smile when the superb lyrebird imitates the little wattlebird.
I love love the insets of the diffent birds too valuable!
I don't know but his tail feathers looks like he is about 4 or 5 different birds he has a talent
What a WONDROUS bird this is... I want to move into it's tree. Or shrubbery. Or... something. 🤩
Basically Lyre birds lives on the ground. They will fly when threaten
@@georgehastings2263 I used to fly when threatened, myself...
til I got too freakin' OOOOOLD!!!!!😫
So this bird is basically like a radio interference for bird calls
Great recording! I think there's a few more snippets of calls in there, but it's hard to mark them all.
Thank you. I'm sure there are a few we've missed. Being UK based it was quite an endeavour to identify them all.
Amazing all the sounds this bird can make. I came across this bird a couple months ago on youtube,never heard of it till then,wow.
Love it's natural song! But, what a ham! Could listen to this lyrebird all day!!
Fantastic!
Incredible
Can I hear Bell Birds in the background.
I think that’s what I was told when I was last there in the old days of travel.
Love to you ALL out there.
♥️🤗❤️🤗
The bellbird is so cool, from quite a small bird amazes me that sound travels so clearly in the bush.
Amazing!
Amazing
Pure sound bath
Thank you so much!
You're very welcome
Like our mockingbird.
This is great as I've often wondered what is the Lyre's natural call and other bird imitation apart from the obvious ones like Whipbird and Kookaburra and a few others
I ❤ birds
So amazing great video. And great for learning what birds are making the noises at my house
Thank you! They are nature's polyglots
Why his natural sound looks like when you are trying to change the channel of a very old radio lmao
Very good. :D
It can recreate an entire forest of sounds
Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer like Serum VST in Nature!
Amazing 😍
fabulous video and bird
Thank you
Wonder if we can memorize some birds that the northern mockingbird mimics from? The only birds that I recognize from it’s vocal repertoire are scrub-jays, western tanager, and a killdeer.
It can be very difficult to memorize birdsong that many mockingbirds or thrashers (Mimidae) would imitate. Pretty much the same can apply for the lyrebird. I’m amazed that you manage to breakdown it’s song to hear what birds the lyrebird imitates.
That can apply to starlings too. No idea why I forgot to include them.
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someone teach it to do raptor calls from jurrasic park
just find one and play sounds & they'll mimic anything! The trick is to FIND one in the 1st place!
That would be awesome 😂
Where the fighting in Papua New Guinea was fierce there are Lyer birds to this day still mimic the Bren and Nambu machine guns. From a SAS soldier who trained there, they were training between tours in Vietnam and when the lier birds let rip he said guys flew everywhere looking to join the fight.
A few of those around the 4 minute mark were slightly off, but an astounding effort to get the correct photos posted of the birds being imitated.
Many thanks for your comment, it was quite an endeavour. Which species were off around the 4 minute mark?
Wolfgang Gartner of birds!
I've also heard Crescent Honeyeaters, Yellow throated Scrubwrens and Magpies mimic, but nothing beats the two species of Lyrebird.
I watched a magpie cycle through a repertoire of calls this summer. I don't know enough to know what all birds it was mimicking, but I was blown away by how many different sounds it made, I wish I had a recording of it. If I hadn't seen it, I would have thought the sounds were coming from different birds for sure
When I was 11 I drew a mock up version of this bird and called him the O-no bird. Now 36 years later you can hear this creature audibly say my name
Cool soo loud
2:58 - Little Wattlebird, Noisy Miner
Even though i've heard it before from other shorter videos it would've been for this LONGER video to actually show VIDEO of what this bird can do for the delight of viewers
WOW...thank you for sharing!
You're welcome!
Dat boid is supoib. 👌
Didnt know they had their own song till now.
1:03 sounded like a Rufous Whistler.
2:45 sounded like a Grey Crowned Babbler
seems like a fun way to give a quiz to ornithology students
im a huge but young bird lover, to bird kind... whats your opinion on palm cockatoos?
Thanks. . .. that is great... thanks friend of the Universe
You're welcome!
"I bought myself a liar bird" (Andy Partridge, XTC)
Went looking for one this morning but no joy around the 1,000 steps.
Is this the one with the 1930s flute player who passed down songs from lyrebird generation to generation
Can anyone help me understand why I am hearing a different being say my name, "John Parfitt", on multiple occasions like 00:02:11, etc?
Noisy friarbird looks like a skeksis.
I can literally hear a grumbly voice saying my name in this video multiple times. Clearly "john parfitt" is audible especially at 2:12. Can anyone confirm what is being said in the background at 2:12, 6:03 & 6:20 something?
I don't hear what you're hearing. Just sounds like a satin bowerbird to me. They're a bit grumbly sounding.
and accually, that laser sound lyrebirds do was before the manmade sounds, i belive it got passed down from ancient lyrebirds hearing that sound, maybye it was from a lightning strke or something?
Hi, do you record all of these sounds ?
All our bird sounds are sourced from www.xeno-canto.org
Blue jays are also great copycats, in that they'll imitate hawk calls. Scientists aren’t sure the exact reason why blue jays do that. I have 2 hypotheses:
1. It’s a way of scaring birds that have eggs or chicks away from their nests so the blue jay can snatch a chick or egg. Blue jays are notorious nest raiders, and will snag an egg and even a chick, whenever they get the chance. But hawks are deadlier than blue jays, so imitating the call of a powerful bird predator is a rather sure fire way to scare a nesting bird off its nest. However, blue jays will also raid nests when the parent birds are off feeding. So in order to get to a meal quickly, the blue jay needs a way to get the parents away from the nest without using violence, for most animals try to avoid risking injury. That’s where those hawk imitations probably come into hand.
2. It’s a relatively risk-free way to scare birds away from a meal. Blue jays are rather belligerent, in that they'll chase smaller birds away from feeders. But sometimes, a smaller bird may fight back, and a bird as small and lightly built as a blue jay is pretty much doomed if it gets injured. But hawks are something no songbird wants to fight back against during an initial attack. So, blue jays might mimic the calls of hawks to get birds at a feeder to flee and give the blue jay a chance to grab a bite.
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It should have been called the MIMIC BIRD for everything that it listens to
This bird is called the lyrebird not for its mimicry but for is tale. When it does a mating dance it fans out its tale feathers which actually resembles a lyre. ( an old fashion string instrument.) Henze lyre bird not liar bird.
Hey, I have a video in my channel with a bird's voice. This bird that I have been looking for for 15 years and have not found a name, a picture or even a video that appears with the first sound in the video. If you know the type of this bird, tell me
Roughly where was the video taken? Will help to narrow down possible species
@@birdkind I heard the sound of this bird the first time. It was in Crash Bandicoot 2, the PS1. Years later I did not find a picture or name for it, but I did find people who put this bird's sound on clips. By installing the sound of this clip, but I am amazed that I did not find a trace of it in nature or even bird clips and documentaries of the bird world, I hope to know this bird
@@-99K @ْAfter listening to the video on your channel again, the bird in the foreground sounds like a Western Meadowlark, listen here for an example: (www.xeno-canto.org/544026)There is also a brief call from a Red-winged Blackbird I think, and then the clip finishes with the sound of a Mourning Dove.
@@birdkind The sound in the introduction is similar, but upon launching the second tweet, I noticed the difference and the flying sound I am looking for is bigger than Western Meadowlark and the link says Not Found
@@-99K The launch of the second part of the song is the Red-winged Blackbird I think. I reckon you are hearing two different species singing together
The superpurb lyrebird
how to figure out his natural sound?
It's an educated guess based on the fact it does not resemble any species in the locality.
I bet the bird watchers are confused why are they keep hearing rare birds and couldn't find them
3:28
I wonder what’s the evolutionary advantage of mimicking other birds if you have a similar diet to them?
This is a good article that might help : www.allaboutbirds.org/why-do-some-birds-mimic-the-sounds-of-other-species/
So they can mimic having a large flock I would imagine.
Except we're missing other sounds it can mimic...
It would be good if they were in Africa and imitating or mimicking lions , elephants and monkeys sounds , that would be a blast
That’s why it’s called a liar bird
I want one, i'd make it learn dubstep beats
1:20 is not accurate he should be saying LEMME SMASH... PLEASE
Just be yourself!
Me:
Can imitate all other birds
Common Hill-Myna can do the same