This is Nova, the male Lyrebird. He’s the father of the chick I posted recently - and he was my friend. There was a bench in the Lyrebird aviary at Healesville - if I sat on it Nova would come and sit next to me. He would listen carefully to what I said - then repeat it. He shocked his keeper one day when he said loudly “good boy”! I had to explain I taught him to say that. Nova is the only male Lyrebird to produce young in captivity - so when his partner Reefton died the Sanctuary sent him to Adelaide to see if he would mate with their female.
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