SydneyJimA pair of Lyre Birds replicating the sounds of other birds & at one time even a mobile phone ringtone.
#AboriginalLand #LyreBirds #AustralianBirds #Nature #Video #IPhoneVideo #NatureVideo #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Bush
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Australia’s superb #lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey https://theconversation.com/australias-superb-lyrebirds-farm-the-forest-floor-to-increase-their-prey-a-behaviour-rarely-seen-in-nature-247908 paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.70009
"The superb lyrebird scratches through the leaf litter and topsoil, using its powerful claws to search for #invertebrates... This loosens the soil, allowing more air and water to infiltrate, speeding up the decomposition of organic material... this creates an ideal habitat for the invertebrates on which it feeds"
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#Lyrebirds, famed for their mimicry, are also #forest farmers, finds new research
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1075864 #science #ecology #birds
Lyrebirds, famed for their mimicry, are also forest farmers, finds new research
The superb lyrebird, famous for its extraordinary ability to mimic practically any noise, has now been shown to be a resourceful farmer, raking the forest floor to create the ideal conditions for its invertebrate prey. The birds perform this ‘farming’ behaviour at a scale unprecedented in non-human vertebrates. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Animal Ecology.
thermonuclear small claimsHappy New Year. I know things feel really hard for a lot of us right now, so let me tell you something important:
In the highland rainforest of NSW, in the Werrikimbe region, there’s a community of superb lyrebirds. Lyrebirds are known for their unparalleled mimicry: they can reproduce the call of any bird they hear (and many other sounds as well). They collect songs like crows collect shiny objects. The variety and complexity of their repertoire, and the skill with which they deliver it, determines their reproductive success.
They also compose songs of their own. These songs vary from region to region; they are learned by lyrebirds when they're young, and passed down from generation to generation with remarkable stability. If a lyrebird finds or produces a new melody that other lyrebirds like, they absorb it into the communal repertoire.
The lyrebirds that live in the Werrikimbe are called flute lyrebirds because in winter, when they're in love, they sing a complex rising melody which sounds like scales played on a flute. This "flute accent" exists nowhere else in the world; it’s unique to this one community. On cold mornings, it floats down through the mists like an enchantment.
How did this haunting melody come about? It's said that a young boy kept a tame lyrebird, and every day the bird listened to him practicing the flute. Then one day the bird escaped. It went to live with its wild brethren, and taught them this new song.
But the truth is much more magical: Lyrebirds composed this song all on their own. It's more complex than any human flautist could ever hope to achieve, and it’s got features unique to lyrebird melody and anatomy.
Lyrebirds live and breathe music. They are built for music. They spend their lives studying the soundscape. They listened to the world around them, all of the pain and suffering and desire and joy, and this is what they sang back into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nrAh2zVWo
#lyrebirds #AustralianBirds #werrikimbe #birds #BirdsOfFediverse #music #song #EnvironmentalHumanities #flute #australia #northernNSW
Flute Lyrebirds of the Werrikimbe Wilderness - Album Sample
Heliograph@appassionato #lyrebirds the most intriguing bush creature ☺️
American NaturalistMale Albert's lyrebirds perform song and dance displays that incorporate their display 'stage' into the performance. Backhouse et al. show that males across the species' range shake their stage with two discrete rhythms. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730523
Cornovia Postcards (Old)Lyre Birds, c.1910s - Postcard
#lyrebirds stories 🪚😆 https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y
Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife
Yvonne PerkinsFascinating article about the Australian #lyrebirds their song and the impact of their changing habitat
#AusBirds #Birds #environment
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-16/lyrebirds-catalyst-sound-protecting-vocal-diversity/102583278
The Conversation AU + NZEver heard of Echo, the lyrebird who accurately mimicked fire evacuation calls in #Sydney?
Superb #lyrebirds are arguably the bird world’s greatest mimics. Males will sing elaborate #songs and perfectly imitate sounds made by other #birds to impress prospective mates.
🐦 However, captive birds like Echo only learn from what they're exposed to – but how?
Read all about it (and listen to some astonishing lyrebird mimics!) here: https://theconversation.com/that-siren-imitating-lyrebird-at-taronga-zoo-he-lost-his-song-culture-and-absorbed-some-of-ours-192929
