Lyrebirds
Lyrebirds are covered with brown feathers.
They live in forests and woods in Australia.
Lyrebirds
A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. They are the: ...
Lyrebird
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for Australian passerine birds named for the appearance of the tail plumage of the male superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, when displayed during courtship. There are only two species.
Superb lyrebird
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Male lyrebirds mimic the sounds of the other birds around them.
Albert's Lyrebird is a large, long-tailed, ground-dwelling bird with rich chestnut brown plumage that is paler below. Its loud, penetrating call is often interspersed with mimicry of other species.
Related to the scrub-birds are the spectacular lyrebirds, the two species of which are confined to eastern Australia. Lyrebirds are classed as an independent suborder (Menurae) and family (Menuridae) consisting of two species.
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Albert's lyrebird (Menura alberti)
Lyrebirds are well known for the male's impressive courtship display, in which he shows off his magnificent tail. Albert's lyrebirds have... More 6 Images 1 Video ...
Menuridae: lyrebirds
Atrichornithidae: scrub-birds
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Superfamily Meliphagoidea - mainly insectivores and nectarivores, distribution centered on Australo-Melanesian region extending into surroundings, notably the Pacific.
On another day I walked the Moora Falls Track seeing a Brush Cuckoo and on the way back Alberts Lyrebird scratching around in the leaves. The Logrunners were still around.
Family Menuridae (lyrebird)
Family Orthonychidae (log-runners or chowchillas)
Passerida ...
A preliminary analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a new species of lyrebird
A preliminary distributional study of fish larvae near a ribbon reef in the Great Barrier Reef ...
Cabanis recognized the Pteroptochidae as a distinct Family, but made it also include Menura (see LYREBIRD), and in 1874 P. L. Sclater (ut supra) thought that Atrichia (see SCRUB-BIRD) might belong here. It was A.
broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, ...
Threats: This species is secure, but further work is needed to assess the impact that the introduced Superb Lyrebird (Menura superba) has on this species in forested areas. Domestic and feral cats kill many of these lizards.
South Australia, Victoria (Big Desert Wilderness Park, Wyperfield National Park, and Hattah-Kulkyne National Park), c. and e. New South Wales (Barren Grounds s. of Sidney), Australian Capital Territory (summer along the Lyrebird Trail) to ec.
 See also: Parrot, Honeyeater, Bowerbird, Magpie, Finch
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