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ABC News Australia recently embedded with a team of ornithologists studying the jaw-dropping vocal ability of lyrebirds in their natural habitat.
Deep in the primordial forests of Victoria State’s Dandenong Ranges National Park where there are still ferns as tall as trees, the superb lyrebird Menura (novaehollandiae) can be seen performing elaborate courtship displays with its trademark tail plume flanked by two S-shaped feathers resembling the instrument that lends the bird its name.
It can also be found in Kinglake National Park, and other areas in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland that aren’t protected.
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Deep in the primordial forests of Victoria State’s Dandenong Ranges National Park where there are still ferns as tall as trees, the superb lyrebird Menura (novaehollandiae) can be seen performing elaborate courtship displays with its trademark tail plume flanked by two S-shaped feathers resembling the instrument that lends the bird its name.
It can also be found in Kinglake National Park, and other areas in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland that aren’t protected.
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Australian Lyrebirds Give Singing Lessons to Juveniles–Mimicking 10 Different Species–LISTEN
The lyrebird is the best kind of ambassador—a real Pavarotti—that the conservation community can rally around.
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