Lyrebird in Australia

Lyrebird is one of the most unique birds in the whole world. The most attractive part of this bird is its tail. This amazing Lyrebird can be found in Australia. Lyrebirds are very good-natured birds and they are usually very shy in nature. You can't see these timid birds very often, because rarely come in front of human surroundings. Most of the time the Lyrebirds stay in the forests, away from the human crowds. Though shy, these Lyrebirds are also very energetic and jump all the time in the branches of the trees and in the rocks.

The Lyrebirds do not fly very much. They mostly walk and run. You can see these Lyrebirds flying rarely. At night, they generally take rest in the low branches of the trees. Another very interesting fact about these Lyrebirds is that they can imitate sounds very easily.

Sounds like barking of dogs, car sounds etc they can imitate in no time. This mimicry of sound can be heard any time of the year. The Lyrebirds eat various types of insects, worms, spiders, seeds of various fruits and many other things.

These birds are terrific mimics. Car noises, chainsaws, dogs and other noises are no problem for this excellent imitator. The mimicry, though used in the mating courtship is heard all year round.

The lyrebirds are found along the Eastern seaboard of Australia (east of the Great Dividing range) and also in Tasmania Their preferred habitat is damp forests either Eucalypt, rainforest or wet woodlands, often very rugged and hard to access spots.
The lyrebird is the largest of the singing birds. It has a mellow, liquid note and can imitate 20 other birdcalls.

The female builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground or at the fork in the trunk of a tree. Lyrebirds breed in the middle of winter, when the food is most readily available. The egg takes six weeks to hatch and the chick is in the nest for another six weeks.

Lyrebirds are an ancient Australian family with few close relatives. Biochemically, the closest relatives appear to be the Scrub-birds [Atrichornithidae] and, maybe, the Bowerbirds [Ptilinorhynchidae] (Sibley & Ahlquist 1990, Sibley 1974). The bubbling, mimicking, complex songs (see below) might recall Scrub-birds but otherwise nothing much in the passerines resembles them at all. Its a chacalaca-sized songbird with a tail like a bird-of-paradise that sings like a thrasher!

The tail of the male Lyrebirds is very beautiful. When they spread it fully, it looks like a Lyre. Lyre is a musical instrument. It has much similarity with the harp. There are two large feathers, white and brown and they look like the frame of the harp and the rest part seems to be the strings of the instrument. That is why the bird is named Lyrebird.

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