hey mate. all locked down in melbourne. watching you discovering our part of the world seem to bring you so much joy. and we are sharing your joy with you. thank you. keep it coming and stay safe. God bless America
That bird had all the sounds of the bush inc. frogs but leaves me wondering what bloody kid terrorised it with a laser gun. Come to think of it,prob just a couple harmless kids running round in the bush playing with their toys. As ya do
The Lyrebird is an amazing immature. It has even imitated a crying child, while rescuers were searching for the child, they realised the little child was nearby, for the bird had heard it, they found the child alive.
@Nathan Woods Drop bears are actually based on tree kangaroos. We have them on our property and they do indeed drop out of trees even from many meters up when they feel threatened. Has caught me by surprise a number of times.
With that Aussie money you had sent, if you got a 10 cent coin, that mystery feathery thing that no one can ever identify on it is the Lyrebird and yes, they are the real deal!
My finest moment was when I identified a lyrebird by its kookaburra impersonation. It just sounded ever so slightly off. Add to that the fact that it was coming from the ground, whereas kookaburras tend to sit up high, and I ratted out the imposter. Saw the cheeky feller a minute or so later. Gotcha!
I lost my mind when I had one of these darn birds making the sound of my mobile phone. I would be busy in the garden, hanging out the washing on the line and would hear my phone ring only to run inside and it wasn't! That liar bird drove me nuts.
Lyrebird is pretty special. The art in mating is to have the largest range of sounds he can mimic to impress his intended female partner. They can virtually mimic any sound they hear. It used to be just other birds but have adapted now to using other more modern sounds they hear around them. "Lyre" part of it's name is because it's tail feathers are shaped like a "Lyre string instrument".
What he's doing is impressing the ladies - the greater the range, the more robust he seems to them! If you were an Australian you would recognise about 15 other Australian birds in his repertoire - along with the other 'random' sounds
He’s not impressing any ladies by making noises of other birds. He’s actually trying to impress and scare her at the same time. The male Will fan his tail like a peacock and do a little dance to impress her at the same time he’ll mimic sounds of the Australian bush. The sounds he makes during his dance are noises that make other birds in the bush panic, they start their alarm calls tricking the female into sticking close to the bigger male that’ll also protect her because he wants to get down
@@waluigist nope, I meant what I typed. I'll elaborate... radial bellied black snakes are those massive tyre retreads that trucks are always throwing off the rims on highways lol. You see them everywhere.
I remember once waking up at 6am in my tent after bushwalking to the sound of someone hammering in tent pegs next to mine. In my half sleepy head I thought who the hell is hammering in tent pegs at this hour of the morning. You guessed it, the Superb Lyrebird.
The laser gun sounds like the Satin Bowerbird which lives in the same area. I also recognised the Whipbird and other native songbirds. There was an author who thought he could take his old fashioned typewriter up into the mountains and write in peace and quiet. Within the week his cabin was surrounded by lyrebirds all mimicking the tapping of the keys, the little bell and the sound of typewriter resetting to the next line. They are extraordinary and the best repertoire along with their dance and tail display gets the Mrs Lyrebird. It must be really hard for the female lyrebirds to choose.
As Aussie's we love a joke and taking the piss. But we're also super proud of our special fauna and the lyrebird fits in that category. I've heard them imitate all sorts of things, even metal detectors when I'm out prospecting. They're a special creature
Honest, hand on my heart this is real. The camera, car alarm and chainsaw footage is from a documentary by David Attenborough. These birds really only have to hear a noise once and they can basically reproduce the sound. They're an amazing creature.
And they'll go extinct soon if people don't start using their hearts and brains. No more animal products, lack of recycling, massive environmental destruction, pollution...
I have a story for you. My mate lived about 1km from the train station in the Blue Mountains. Every morning he would walk to the station which had a automatically gated footpath across the railway line, just like a car level crossing. It had a bell that would ring DING DING DING... when the gates closed. My mate was walking to the station, was about 300 metres from the station and he hears the bell go off, meaning he has about a minute or so before the train arrives. So he starts running, sprints the 300 metres and arrives 5 minutes before the train. There was a Lyre Bird in the bush next to the station calling DING DING DING copying the bell. He was not happy ;)
Lyrebirds were introduced to Tasmania in the 1930s when they were worried about the numbers on the mainland. A few years ago they did a study and the Tasmanian birds still use the calls of mainland birds that are not found in Tassie...so they have been passing down the calls through generations.
🤣 I love your reaction. We actually do have some weird animals here. The Lyre bird was named because his tail feathers resemble the Lyre instrument. The fact that he lies is a coincidental bonus.
EVERY SOUND in this video is CORRECT!! I live near wild lyrebirds and they minic everything. Even sounds of cars driving by. You don't want to get lost in the Australian bush. You will walk in circles following sounds of cars
the one at adelaide zoo learned to do impact drills, circular saws, nail guns and screw guns when they have some renovations done , that video is pretty funny! cheers mate!
That's not funny at all, that's horrible! Can you please use your heart and brain before commenting? They belong in the wild, they should NOT be in gawking prisons while their homes are getting destroyed by humans!
Totally legit, I grew up around the Dandenong ranges and to hear them mimicking police, ambulance and fire engines ( way back when they had individual sirens and bells) was unreal but to hear them mimicking the local steam engine ( puffing billy) complete with steel track sounds in the middle of Sherbrooke forest was incomprehensible.
It is 100% legit… They are amazing mimics… most amazing mimics on the planet… Typically (in the wild) they go through a string of different calls and then repeat the pattern. Out in the bush, it’s only when you recognise the pattern repeating over and over every few minutes that you realise it’s a lyrebird making the calls and not the actual birds it’s mimicking… …in the wild you only ever hear them and pretty much never, ever see them. They are extremely shy and very good at hiding.
Not wrong there, have one who has a little oasis near where I live. Stumbled across her three times now and each time she has taken flight across this small gully and it looks absolutely amazing. They make you feel like your heading some where special.
So guys,when you hear them or see them,sit somewhere open near them where you know they can see you,if you are patient enough and don't move and be quiet they are actually quite inquisitive and will slowly aproach you,they won't come too close but close enough for you to get a good look at them 👍
It occurred to me when I was listening to this amazing bird a long time ago~ The Lyre Bird mimicking the sound of a chainsaw, is actually the sound of their natural habitat being sawn down..
We were out in the Australian bush camping once, we were miles from nowhere! I mean out there. No roads close by, no buildings. We started to hear in the distance a fire truck siren and two way radio chatter. We panicked a little because we thought we may be just about to be caught in a fire storm. These sounds went on for hours, we tried to follow the sound and see what was happening. The sirens and radio chatter continued what seemed to be all around us now. We finally tracked down what was making the sound after hours of searching, we got a glimpse, a very short glimpse of a Lyre bird making these sounds. It ran off as they are very shy and blend in really well to the undergrowth of the forrest. We couldn’t believe how accurate and loud these fire fighter sounds were. It had sirens, radio chatter, people talking, engine sounds the works. It was very convincing.
Australia becomes more amazing the deeper you dive. Yes, tree kangaroos do exist but because of drop bears and hoop snakes, anything we tell tourists is taken with a grain of salt.
Was camping in the Victorian high country a few years ago and was teaching a friend how to play the guitar intro to Sweet child o mine by Guns n Roses. The next day while going on a hike, we kept on hearing sweet child o mine in the bush! It was amazing!
The Lyrebird. Nature’s greatest mimic. This bird can literally mimic any sound on earth, it’s the world’s greatest mimic. Every sound these birds made is real.
We used to have one living on our property and it used to mimic, exactly, the sound of cars going over an old wooden bridge that ran past the end of our block. It had the engine sound and the rumble of the planks, as well as the dopler effect as the car approached and receded. Absolutely amazing birds.
We lost our dog Mindy for almost an hour in the bush near East Warburton in Victoria....everytime we yelled "Mindy" or whistled, a Lyrebird would also call "Mindy" and whistle! The poor dog was close to exhaustion from running from bird to bird by the time we eventually found her...
They are great birds. It's not a joke, they really do mimic heaps of sounds. They are shy but if your around them enough they will get used to you. They are extremely funny birds to watch and listen to. The more sounds they makes for the ladies, well let's say its very rewarding for him 😁 Blessings from Australia 🙏🙏🦘🦘🐨🐨
I live in Australia and called the fire department when I heard the smoke alarm going off in my neighbor’s house shortly after I’d moved to the neighborhood. It turned out to be a lyrebird imitating their smoke alarm after it had heard it while the occupants burnt their toast setting off the alarm.
I was driving on a twisty mountain road in the temperant rainforest in S.E. Queensland and I kept hearing this metallic rattling sound. I eventually pulled over and started looking around and under my car until I heard the sound again but the car was not running or moving. Then the penny dropped and I instantly knew that I had been fooled by a Lyrebird.
Can confirm that they're incredible in person. I got lucky enough to encounter a wild one in the Blue Mountains. Interestingly, the infamous Australian magpies are also good mimics, at least of other birds' calls. I had one sitting outside my room just this morning showing off his repertoire including butcherbird and kookaburra calls.
Seeing a lyrebird doing its thing in real life is insane. They can copy some crazy stuff, like construction equipment, dogs barking, mechanical devices, motorbikes etc
Lyre birds are totally real/legit and are amazing. I watched/heard one mimic a chainsaw. They are awesome. They are able to mimic pretty much anything it hears a few times. We also have Bower birds. The males gather things that are blue for its display stage/nest. We lived on a property and all the blue pegs would go missing from the clothesline. We found the nest and all the pegs lol. Btw Tree Kangaroos are a real animal.
All Ligit !,😊 I remember visiting the Healsville Sancutary in the 80s. The Lyrebird was called 'chook' by the Keeper/Ranger. He came over and waved his hand up and down and 'chook' immediatly started with the Laser Gun sounds while spreading all his Feathers. Wonderful.
When I lived in Wollongong there used to be a chute on the side of Mt Kembla that they'd load coal down. There was a phone down the bottom where the truck would park and they guys up top would use it to check the truck was in place with the truck driver. The phone was removed in the 90's but the lyrebirds still replicate the ringing of the phone.
Absolutely amazing.. I’m in awe of these birds 🐦. I hope to visit Australia 🇦🇺, it would be a dream, I’m so fascinated by it. There’s really nowhere else quite like Australia
@@IWrocker Hey Ian, Tree Kangaroos are real mate, VERY rare and found mainly in PNG, but real. They're like a Sloth Kangaroo. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-kangaroo
It’s funny how the lyrebird can imitate any sound, including the laughing sound of the Australian Laughing kookaburra. They’re the world’s most unique bird species when it comes to the so many different sounds they can make.
I love lyrebirds as they're trippy. They get their names for the tails as when their tails are up, they're shaped like a lyre (medieval stringed instrument) We have them here in Victoria around Healeville (Managed to see one in the bush near there) and the Dandenong Ranges (Sherbrook Forest as seen from a carriage of Puffing Billy going over the Monbulk Creek trestle bridge). And yes, they do mimic sounds and other birds to impress female lyrebirds ...especially chainsaws!
We have lyrebirds around king lake also, I took my family down to a spot called Mason's falls, and there were about 3 in different areas of the trail, and 1 in the carpark. The carpark one mimicked the sound of my wife's WRX. Brilliant creatures.
We have the brown lyrebirds in the national parks here in NSW, and even some black ones in a pine forest too (which I've never seen anywhere else - didn't even know they came in black).
I remember coughing a few times while out camping with a mate, and after like 5 seconds we both heard me coughing off at the tree line. One of those moments I thought I was gonna have a heart attack.. Also, who told you that Tree Kangaroos weren't a thing?
3:47 black cockatoo 3:49 kookaburra 3:51 eastern whip bird are just a few of the birds he's mimicking they mimic all the sounds in the bush to do a display dance and attract a female.
I love Lyrebirds 😍 They can remember every sound they hear - and can make mimic things so accurately, that one get lured further into the bush believing they are headed for a highway.
Lyre Bird gets its name from the hand held, stringed, harp like instrument, as the birds tail plumage resembles the instrument. I think the bird mimics the sounds that it hears as it probably thinks that it is repeating a mating call and might get some action.
Yes they are incredible mimics. Around the Dandenong ranges you hear them often and the power tools are so realistic as they hear trees being sawed down etc.
I have lots of Lyrebirds at my place, it’s the best bird ever. One of them mimics my whistle when I’m whistling to the dog, it’s like listening to myself. Best animal ever.
Hahaha, it must be difficult to believe it's real when you're trying not to fall for an Aussie prank. Absolutely legit though! One of the most amazing birds in Australia. We actually have a lot of amazing birds. My favourite is the Tasmanian Wedge tailed eagle, massive bird that's been known to snatch lambs off the ground. Pretty amazing!
Not really what amazing is used for... and they'll go extinct soon if people don't start using their hearts and brains. No more animal products, lack of recycling, massive environmental destruction, pollution...
Just to clarify the comment about the Lambs, Wedgetails do take lambs but its been shown that they only take the sick or dead, even so, sheep graziers have still been known to shoot them despite it being illegal now for many years.
I mean it in the way that there's a Feminist out hiking through the forest, and someone in the bushes is wolf-whistling at her. That would freak her out. And I did it on a porpoise. "Oh nose! I'm being se*ually harassed by a bird!" It only took a few whistles for him to learn it. It was near a carpark, so he also did the "beep beep" of remote keys, and also the ignition sound of an engine starting.
From AUS :) We DO have some pranks we have with Lyerbirds... I was a city kid who went to boarding school closer to the big rock then the coast. One night I was told that there was a creature in the bush that would cry like a baby or call out like a child and lour children out into the darkness where they were never seen again.... Imagine my surprise when I heard this then later watched a Lyrebird sound exactly like a crying baby!
They are real. Amazing birds. They do that because when they are trying to attract a mate. The female lyrebird is attracted to the male with the most impressive song that he can sing
This is the sound of the bush, they mimic so many different sounds. Bower birds are also interesting in the way they surround their ground nest with anything blue, from blue clothes pegs to blue ribbons.
Interesting facts about Bowerbirds, the bower is not their nest. Purely a pad built to attract the gals and to do the deed with any gal who is impressed enough with his construction and collection of trinkets. Once the deed is done, the gal has to fly off and build her own nest in a tree! Also different species prefer different colours for their bowers. The Satin Bowerbird likes his to be primarily blue, as you described, while the Great Bowerbird has a preference for all things green and bone coloured (with the odd bit of blue and pink/purple thrown in). Amazing birds 🐤😊
Tree kangaroos are real. Actually I grew up at the base of the Dandenongs, which is a stronghold for Lyrebirds. The ones in Sherbrooke Forest mimic the sound of the whistle of the Puffing Billy train. I have also been standing on the famous cricket oval ar Walhalla when the fire alarm went off at the end of the oval - follwed by a fire alarm at the other end...there were two Lyrebirds having a competition!
The lyrebird is an amazing mimic, and it's "fair dinkum" they can mimic just about any sound. We have been camping, and you would swear some one was setting up a tent nearby. The lyrebird was mimicking steel tent pegs being hammered in. As children we heard a lyrebird at a zoo and it would mimic an old steam train moving off from a station nearby. True stories!!
@@Cassxowary their home isn’t getting destroyed though. Before any new developments go up in rural or semi rural areas there is a conservation impact study done, it’s standard development laws
These ground dwelling birds can live for 30 years so they pick up many sounds to mimic during their lifetime from their natural environment. Check out the magnificent bower bird 🐦.
It'd be great to see a battle between a Lyrebird and a Minah bird. It seems like people have forgotten about the Minah, which used to be extremely popular in the US a few decades ago. They are also fantastic mimickers of sounds and many people keep them today. Love the Lyrebird as well. BTW, the name Lyrebird comes from a Greek ancient sort of "harp' stringed instrument they used that the tail feathers of the "lyre"bird resemble.
First I’m Australian. I have also seen an heard lyre birds in person. The best thing about this video is that the Americans in the know, now question us on if ANYTHING is real. The lyre bird is real. Ha ha ha this is too funny.
Dude, Tree Kangaroo's are a real thing! Imagine the Bastard spawn of a Kangaroo and a Brushtail Possum and you're in the ballpark. They're up in Far North Queensland and New Guinea. The fact that the Platypus exists, makes it pretty easy to mess with foreigners about native fauna.
These are real. I live in Adelaide and we have one of the most famous ones for construction tools there. There are some cases where they have heard two sounds at the same time, for example a horn with a door closing and can clearly make both sounds at the same time. Their vocal abilities are truly insane. I own 5 parrots and you truly can't understand the versatility of birds until you live with them.
Look up Chook the Lyrebird. Unfortunately he passed away, but he was incredible. Lyrebirds are named because their tails when fully splayed resemble the musical instrument the lyre
A Lyrebird at Taronga Zoo has been filmed mimicking the recent "Evacuate now" recording when the lions escaped last week , it would have only heard it a few times on that one morning
The link I shared with you shows the lyrebird doing many different sounds. It even does a jackhammer! As well as drills, people talking, hand-held games, etc. It can mimick any sound it hears. It uses its sound effects to attract females. The more sounds it can make, the better the chance it has of attracting females. Much like peacocks with their plumage: The brighter a peacock's tail, the better the chance to attract peahens. Oh, and the Lyrebird appears on our ten cent coin.
they can mimic the sound exactly so the sound you hear even sounds like it comes from a distance or certain direction sometimes you hear echoes in the mimicked sound as well. i've had a complete dawn chorus of many native birds with only a lyre bird around. and i've also seen grown women looking for a crying baby in the bush around a campsite.
A few years ago in the Adelaide Zoo they were building new enclosures next to the Lyrebird enclosure and they learnt all those amazing sounds like the drills, saws and nailguns. They learnt so much they also were repeating snippets of the workers conversations.
The word Lyre is from the musical instrument. They can make nature and mechanical sounds. No pranks. In the deep forest if you hear a train, then it'll be a Lyrebird... They are for real and so are the sounds. They are the masters of mimic. We have other birds who can mimic but not the same as a Lyrebirds. Their tails resemble a Lyre.
