Lucky! I don't know much about them, other than they live in Australia....so do you have to go far into the wild to find one, or are these guys running around rural areas? I'm so jealous of you....:)
I thought a video game at first. But I think he's heard a starter trying to turn over an engine. The engine won't fire. The popping at the front of his imitation sounds like an old typewriter before the eclectic model was invented.
@@jackoff4850 is one of cheap toy laser blasters my son has one of them and they all make the same sound. I would totally see my kid pretending to be blasting at the bird.
This is a captive bird... They mimic the sounds they are used to hearing. A lyrebird making car and chainsaw sounds is the saddest thing. Many of the sounds this one is making are from other Australian birds :)
I can just picture this bird now thanking people with a British accent. I once heard a newborn baby cry and thought someone had left it in the rainforest, it was a Lyrebird and they are brilliant.
He did a lot of calls then, here’s what I recognised, magpie, black cockatoo, chough, apostle bird, currawong, bell bird, kookaburra, king parrot and there’s more. It’s be great to get someone who knows bird calls to listen to it. I’ll have to read some more of the comments. Awesome. These are super shy birds. Must have been hand reared. Lovely to see
The bird is in a sanctuary, a captive bird. I track and video 7 wild birds in Dorrigo National Park which are tame enough to get close to when performing in the forest. Videos can be seen here at LYREBIRD DIARIES. I have had birds as close as this and two of the males often perform at me, I don't know why.
What a dear, lovely man Alan seems to be. Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm charmed by the bird, but more so by Alan. Love from a 75 year old lady in San Diego, California.
I live in a forest 20 miles east of Melbourne and they occasionally stroll through my garden. They're amazing and delightful animals; maybe best mimics of all creatures.
Finally I know what noise hes mimicking. I was fencing a field today and when you drive the staples in the post it makes that exact noise on the tight hi tensile wires strung between the posts. Its bugged me for ages that I couldn’t place that sound
Finally. I just watched this and was experiencing exactly what you said where you couldnt place it and I was like SOMEONE must know the sound and wrote in comments. Otherwise I wouldve assumed it was a laser sound or something
It's the sound of an SLR camera that Lyrebird is mimicking. And it's not a digital one, it's an old one with a film roll. The sound is composed of two sounds. The first one is when the shutter opens and closes, the other one is when the film is wound forward. Amazing!
An auto film advance doesn't have the sharp frequency decay of this sound the lyre bird is making. I find the other explanation in the comments of stapling a wire fence more likely
Spot on. That's a lot of photos that happening when he does his lyrebird thing with his wings which is the reason he combines those sounds with his posing
I'm a Aussie and you can count yourself one lucky Englishman. I'd love to experience that. We are blessed with this great bird and other types of incredible bird in our country.
Julie Bennett can I ask where it was. I stay in Brisbane and the bird is found around the forest here. But many people spend a lifetime watching this bird and never get a display like that.
So many of those bird calls I hear every single day and yet, there's no lyre birds where I live. They have got to be the cleverest birds in existence. They can copy almost anything. Best thing, they're probably the only Australian critter that doesn't want to kill you.... if you don't count laser guns that is
I was walking with my family and heard one of these birds, I thought it was somebody in distress only to realise it was a lyrebird, cute little things they are.
steve jaubert Some times it seems that the "English" that's spoken by some folks in England is a different language that the version we speak in the USA. But then again, I can't always understand English spoken by certain people in America, such as Cajun folks(or people from Brooklyn)! Lol
@The Red-Eyed Baron kind of, the UK accents that a lot of Americans tend to lock onto are either the posh accents, cockney accents, or Scottish accents, all of which seem to show up the most in hollywood movies (it's hard for me to think of a movie by an American studio that contains any other UK accents besides those 3). Whilst anyone who has lived in Britain long enough will tell you that there's lots of different accents in the UK besides those 3. the main ones I can think of are Brummy, Geordie, Yorkshire, Westcountry (I might be Devon born and bred but all the Westcountry accents just sound the same to me), and Welsh. I suspect the reason these accents are often avoided is because they're the hardest to understand for anyone who hasn't lived in the UK long enough.
I think of all the possibilities of sound and that birds ability to just tap into all of that and make all those noises that are unique and have a special hook to them. More than anything it makes me think of sound as wave energy and how we are so susceptible to it to degrees we can't even imagine.
How lucky is he. I used to live beside Sherbrooke Forest in Belgrave. Heard them regularly, saw a few hens but never a fine fellow like that. So close….amazing.
When I was little I thought they were called Liar Birds, because they were always pretending to be something they’re not..we would listen out for them in the bush, but they were hard to find. You are so lucky to have had your own private concert.
@@margaretboehm4485 i shall get there soon hopefully Margaret. Am just laying a few more bricks in a lovely frosty U.K to fund my next trip. Thanks for all of your great work👍
Incredible! I don’t know if you realised it but after the kookaburra call which you correctly identified the lyrebird also performed the magpie, the currawong, the whipbird and the Willy wagtail bird calls and probably more. What a show off!
Such a sweet interaction... Its obvious the bird was challenging the man yet it must have found he was no threat. Looks like the bird also wanted 2 make a new friend - with all the tremendously weird wonderful sh*t that happens on Mother Earth she's such an amazing n beautiful planet no? ; )
The Lyre bird doesn't actually have its own song. Every single sound it makes is a copy of another bird or sound it hears. There are still plenty of them in Victoria Australia, particularly in the Dandenong ranges outside Melbourne. It is an amazing creature that's for sure.
You’re right that the lyrebird is interested in Alan - this is a courtship ritual. The bird has displayed his tail feathers and serenaded you with as many different “songs” as he can. I’d love to know where this was filmed and if this bird is still there. He’s very vocal!
Filmed at Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary - a popular tourist destination around a 90 minute drive to the north-east of central Melbourne. There are many interesting places, of which to visit, in and around the township of Healesville which is in the foothills of Australia's Great Dividing Range. There are many cultural, artistic, historic, natural, infrastructural, etc., etc., things to see. To get there, you'll even have to drive through parts of the world famous Yarra Valley wine growing district. What a terrible thing to have to do. There's even a daily regular bus/coach service from Melbourne city central. One could do much, much worse than take a day (or three) to visit the region and its delights. Oh . . . , and there's a population of lyrebirds permanently residing at the sanctuary, so yes he (and his relatives) will still be there.
I am a Australian, these birds are magnificent, they have mastered the sounds of all our native birds, Some how I think it was demanding its bench back
Well, I'm just a Brit, so I don't know much about the Lyrebird, but I was thinking the same.....like he was trying to show off, that he was better than poor old Alan! Lol
