How To Use Lyrebird In A Sentence
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Besides the chance of spotting a wombat, Girraween also is home to that ultimate mimic, the lyrebird, and the wonderful powerful owl, which eats whole possums and throws away their tails.
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Birds seen at lower elevations in the Alps include the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) and the gang gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).
Australian Alps montane grasslands
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There has been some erosion by wind and intense fires, and the superb lyrebird while excavating for food or building nest-mounds could have had some impact on erosion over time since they may turnover an average of 63 tonnes of debris per hectare per year.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Actually, today Lyrebird was ravenous and wanted to be able to eat without worrying about delicate dagging and fragile lace.
The Eagle And The Nightingale
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They all construct mounds of earth or vegetation either for display - as does the super lyrebird - or as an incubator for eggs, as do the mallee fowl and the brush turkey.
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By the time we've finished considering what it takes for the male Gelada baboon to attract a mate (a lot) -- or, for that matter, what is required of the male moth, Capuchin monkey, lyrebird or any of the other sexual suitors on display here -- no one will be thinking about what any of it means for human sexual enterprise.
Calls of the Wild
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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A few feet from where I crouched, a superb lyrebird performed its repertoire of mischievous mimicry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Albert's lyrebird is essentially confined to the Tweed Volcano/Border Ranges locality.
Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
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We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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The lyrebird of Australia imitates other birds - and other sounds as well.
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In his book Why Birds Sing, jazz musician David Rothenberg reports that in the 1930s, an Australian flute-playing farmer in Dorrigo, New South Wales, kept a lyrebird as a pet, who liked to sing a fragment of one of the songs the man played.
Birdology
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There are no lyrebirds in my garden, but there are a few others.
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She thinks of jaguars, night herons, flamingos, ocelots, parakeets, lyrebirds, roseate terns.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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The lyrebird, most commonly found in Australia, is capable of mimicking an extraordinary range of sounds while singing to attract a mate.
Weekend Diversions: Lyrebirds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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One of the film's great treats, superbly photographed, shows the lyrebird in glorious display, hurling importuning calls into the skies -- a huge repertoire of songs, some sounds copied from other birds and others picked up from humans, such as, remarkably enough, camera clicks.
Calls of the Wild
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The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) also inhabits this ecoregion and may have drastically affected vegetation and erosion rates: it turns over an estimated 63,000 kilograms (kg) of debris per hectare each year looking for food or nest-mound building materials.
Eastern Australian temperate forests
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Various informational signs promised lyrebirds, Golden Whistlers, and other gems, but I found the forest fairly silent.
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The rainforest at its base (known as Leura Forest) is renowned for lyrebirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had barely started walking before the lyrebird stopped me in my tracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A feature of the book that has attracted much attention is ‘a world list of superior singers’ including 194 species, from Australian lyrebirds to canaries, heard by himself or reported by others.
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Of particular importance are Albert's lyrebird Menura alberti, the superb lyrebird M. novaehollandiae and rufous scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens, both of which represent families with only two species, and are endemic to Australia.
Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
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The Australian lyrebird is the greatest mimic of the bird world.
Times, Sunday Times