lyrebird

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Birdology

• “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

• “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

• “Albert's lyrebird is essentially confined to the Tweed Volcano/Border Ranges locality.”

  Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Calls of the Wild

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Calls of the Wild

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