We thought the Northern Mockingbird was great at the mimic but the Superb Lyre Bird is the grand champion! In this episode we get to see and hear the Lyre Bird for the FIRST TIME EVER! He even shows his mating dance and song too! This was beautifully filmed and was such a shock to us at just how magnificent this bird really is! While we didn't learn many facts, seeing and hearing was absolutely incredible! Let us know how common the Lyre bird is and if they are in residential areas or just the forests. LOVED this! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Yes, the laughing sound it is mimicking is a pitch perfect Kookaburra call. They will also mimic man made sounds like camera shutters, camera motor winds, chainsaws, childrens toys (incl. R2D2!), car alarms, hammers hammering, crosscut saws, babies crying.....pretty much anything they hear.....and do it perfectly.
Yes! The footage of a lyrebird mimicking a human baby crying is quite astounding! But it does make me wonder about the explanation regarding the sulphur crested cockatoos. If a single bird in captivity can learn to mimic a baby crying, why would the cockatoo be a problem with 30 or 40 years exposure?
I'm Australian and have seen a lyrebird live, and so many videos of them but watching it make the kookaburra call has me all discombobulated! It reminded me of the first time I ate a yellow cherry tomato - properly surreal!
Hi Ladies, great reaction. If you liked this, you absolutely have to see the David Attenborough clip on the Lyrebird. It has to be seen/heard to be believed - honest. It includes the bird mimicking a chainsdaw, among other things!👍👍
its an amazing clip to show the range of non-animal sounds they can make too, especially the sounds of the tree falling during the chainsaw impression. ive included a link below to the clip for those that want to check it out. ruclips.net/video/mSB71jNq-yQ/видео.html
The first time I saw the Attenborough clip, I was sure that I was being pranked. The chain saw sound was so real that I thought it had to be a mockumentary.
All these sounds are PERFECTLY mimicking specific birds, the crazy laugh is the laughing kookaburra,probably the most iconic Aussie bird tied with the emu and Australian magpie
So I work at a wildlife sanctuary in Vic, Australia, and we have a resident Lyrebird. He loves to sing and dance for visitors this time of year, and he has quiet the interesting noise selection due to all the things around the sanctuary, including construction sounds, sounds used in our bird show, and he even shared his cage with a bower bird (another mimic) for a while, and they taught each other some noises! Also, those extra animals at the start, in order are a male King Parrot, Crimson Rosellas, Swamp Wallaby, and Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo! Then at 16:28 we have some Grey Kangaroos and a little Eastern Yellow Robin.
Prior to the 2009 fires, I know that lyrebirds in Kinglake used to make the sound of old double handled manual tree saws from a hundred years ago. The sound being passed down from adult to chicks! I don't know how many, if any, lyrebirds survived that awful day. Do you?
@@triarb5790 so it has actually been documented in bad bushfires like around Kinglake, Lyrebirds take cover in underground spaces, usually wombat burrows. So while not all escape the flames a good number do
They are such good mimics and beautiful birds. I remember, at the end of last year, some lions escape their enclosure at Taronga Zoo (Sydney), which of course set off the evacuation alarm and it was all over the news, then a few days later, turned on the news to find out that the Zoo's resident Lyrebird (named Echo) had started using the alarm in his song, right down to even saying the words 'evacuate now', and this was not long after he had started using crying baby sounds. Truly amazing birds
Just to let you know (and not many people know this): the snapping 'laser gun' sounds the bird makes is not actually a sound he's mimicking, but is actually the lyrebird's natural call. It's the only sound that is natural to that bird and not a mimic. 🙂
After the Lyre Bird, ladies if your into birds that dance take a look at Australian Bower Birds or the Brolgas who are members of Crane family species .
@@optimusvalerius8824 Brolgas can be viscous buggers. There was one living in the street of some town in FNQ that made the news for wandering up and down the main street getting pissed off if he wasn't fed or shown attention.
In Sydney earlier this year they had lion cubs escape there enclosure at the zoo, the zoo sounded an alarm and an emergency message to leave the zoo. By the next day the resident lyrebird was doing the alarm and message.
Lyrebirds in zoos and sanctuaries in the major cities come out with some interesting sounds. They can accurately imitate sirens, alarms, camera shutter clicks, phone ring tones, the sounds of car doors opening and closing, as well as the sounds of the other birds both native and exotic, and some other animals they can hear from their enclosure. I have two favourite Australian birds: Wedge Tailed eagle, and Cassowary.
The one where Debbie stopped the video and asked if someone had been laughing in the Forest was the lyrebird mimicking a Kookaburra. They make that characteristic laugh - it’s a quintessentially Australian sound. The Kookaburra is a member of the Kingfisher family... you may enjoy videos of the Kookaburra too!
A visit to my grandparents in the coastal bush, always included a symphony by the resident lyrebird. It could bark like a dog. It drove the dog crazy calling out her name. And one time, had an entire rescue crew searching for hours for what sounded like a crying child. They were not happy to discover that it was not a child that was responsible for the crying. 😅
The red/green bird is a king parrot, the red/blue bird is a rosella. The laughing call the lyrebird makes is a mimic of the kookaburra. The photo shutter noise you heard was also the lyrebird. They also make very convincing chainsaw calls.
This post is Superb, in every way, shape and form! I'm a 73 year old Australian Male, and by heck, NEVER have I seen, in all my years, such beautiful, fabulous sounds and images as I've seen here. More than Brilliant!. Thank you two SO much!.
The biggest thing I missed from Australia when I had to live overseas was the birdsong in the morning, even in the suburbs it's so cool. My favorite is the whip birds call while the plover call always sends a cold shiver up my spine.
I think I may have suggested this for you guys. Glad you like it. As the bloke said the Lyre bird did about 10 to 15 other birds right there . They copy whatever they are exposed to , like sounds from a construction site, cameras, and my grandfather heard one making the sound of a man chopping wood. For many years we never knew what the birds actual call was because it does every other bird . They are very pretty and elusive . Another fascinating Aussie bird is the Bower bird . The male builds a little nest and decorates it with blue objects and does a dance for the ladies . They are a beautiful metallic blue colour .
They also mimic human noises like chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters (which you mentioned) and people coughing. They are absolutely amazing. The calls I recognized are, Black cockatoo, Noisy minor, Whip bird, Currawong, Magpie, Kookaburra (the laughing), and Willy Wagtail and maybe Lorikeet. Birds are awesome and the dawn chorus in Australia is really something to experience.
There probably was, there were a few in there I didn't recognize as I'm from Queensland and they're in the south of the country. I think a couple of those parrots like the Rosella are in there too, but we don't get them up here so I'm not sure what their calls sound like.@@davidmc105
Some years ago, my Aussie grandsons gifted me a cd (yes, I said some years ago!) entitled "sounds of a Queensland rain forest". It includes many bird songs and calls, amongst other voices of nature. I often use it as an aid to sleep. I suggest you try something similar. Thx for another great video. ❤
David Attenborough does a good documentary on these and the sounds they mimic are insane…… another for you bird lovers to look for if visiting Scotland you may be lucky to spot the capercaillie, thanks for the video again ladies❤ the capercaillie doesn’t mimic but during mating season it’s just a one off sound to hear
I love the lyrebird. My favourite bird sounds is that of the Whipbird , but my favourite bird of all time is the family pet Cockatoo "Cockie" he has been in the family for 40 years . He learnt to mimic not only Dads voice but his whistle as well , being a farmer Dad controlled his dogs via whistle...you can image the dogs confusion when Dad whistled one order than Cockie another .😅
I live in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The Lyrebird is here too and we see and hear them regularly. There is even one in the bush on the other side of our street. You know they are there firstly by their scratching of the ground searching for food and then the Lyrebird call. They are fantastic to see and hear. The male has gorgeous feathers. They adorn our 10c coin.
Omg they definitely are superb st mimicking! I definitely recognise many if the bird calls it was making, and the laughing one was of the Kookaburra! What a fantastic talent it has!
Kookaburra, Whip bird, Currawong, motor on camera, Black Cockatoo, Finches and various different Parrots from what I could hear. It's name comes from those incredible tail feathers - they are shaped like the musical instrument, the Lyre.
You know how sometimes coincidences happen and they mean nothing to anyone but yourself but they’re so odd you feel you have to tell someone? So I’m reading a new nature book to my 6 year old yesterday at bedtime and it has a section on tropical birds (not the Lyre bird though). So I tell him about this amazing naturalist whose work I was brought up on in the UK in the 80s and who introduced many of us to some of the amazing, little-known creatures we share this planet with. Then I bring up some of David Attenborough’s videos on YT and the first one we watch is a 14 year old upload from a 1990s show where David Attenborough tells us all about the Lyre Bird. My 6 year old LOVES it - especially the camera shutter and chainsaw sounds and proceeds to show his mum and brothers the same video twice this evening. We have a chuckle and move on. Then 3 hours later, this shows up in my subscriptions feed. The chances of that happening are not zero, but they’re not a LOT higher than zero… Sometimes those coincidences are hard to accept as being pure chance… Looking forward to this one, ladies. :)
Your phone is listening to you and it suggests videos on RUclips and ads as well. This happens to me all the time. Unless you are subscribed to this channel.
I live very close to the forest in the video. I’ll never forget going on a walk there when I was a child. I kept hearing a car revving the engine and jumped off the track because I thought I was about to be run over. It wasn’t until after that I realised no cars could get in there and it must have been a lyrebird. It sounded identical!
Hi Ladies! The Lyrebird gets its name from the shape of the tail plumage. When it is held upright like a peacock tail, it looks like a Lyre (musical instrument) complete with "strings". The laughter is a copy of the kookaburra's call. That sound that the old "African" movies used to get lampooned about (Tarzan, Jungle Jim etc) as kookaburras are only native to Australia and NOT Africa. The red and blue parrots are one form of rosellas. Many Australian birds can sound like many other things. I also noted whip birds in the audio (similar to a whip cracking). I still remember my poor father just after he bought his brand-new car and I was a little kid at the time (not yesterday). We went down bellbird gully to see and hear the bellbirds. Poor dad couldn't figure out where the squeaking in his brand-new car was coming from, so he stopped the car and searched all around it scratching his head. While bellbirds can sound like a crystal bell they can also sound like squeaking. You should also check out the video of the lyrebird (don't have its URL currently) where the bird mimics a space invaders machine, a camera with a motor drive, a chainsaw etc. You should also check out video of New Guinea Birds of Paradise, a lot of them pull long tails over heads to display
"Where's your Dance?" I laughed out loud to that Debbie. But may I add? Ladies, it's not just your agreeable personalities, but the wide and varied subject matters you watch and get enthusiastic about. Love, Light and Peace!
Hi from Australia. Could I respectfully request that if you enjoy birds with amazing colours (aussie spelling!) please google Gouldian Finches. Their colours are extremely 'defined'. Take care. Love your channel.
What a bird , clever good looking and has some cool moves . This guy got some great footage and beautiful shots . Really enjoyed being entertained by the bird and you guys . I enjoy watching Natasha watching birds she lights up 😍😀🥰
there is some iconic David Attenborough footage of a lyre bird in a rain forest, where it imitates not only other birds, but different the sound of different types of cameras taking photos and the chainsaws of the logging companies which is totally amazing
I saved a baby pigeon yesterday evening. It must have fell out the nest and it was sat on my garden bench. It just about had all its feathers and wasn't scared of me. Theres loads of cats next door so I put on some gloves and picked it up and put it on top of the log store that touches the conifer trees. When I came back in the garden it had climbed in to the conifers and I could hear it flapping about in there. It wasn't cat food last night.
Many years ago my husband and I came back from a night out and on the way to bed I saw 2 pigeons sitting on the landing windowsill so I took them in. The hen was a pure white fantail so pretty and the cockpit was a grey colour. We bought a shed for them the next day and went on to have lots of squabs that were a mix of colours. A year later my brother asked if I could look after his 2 ducks and of course I said yes so had to buy a kids pool for them lol we also had 2 dogs and a cat . I'm glad you saved that bird.
they are amazing birds and can mimic everyday things too. Sherbrooke forest is stunning, all around that area is, spent a lot of time exploring around there when we lived in Victoria.
They are amazing mimics. I have heard (from several sources) about them mimicking steam trains back in the day. Including the whistling, and the varying echoes as the train slowly came up around each hill.
I’m an Aussie and I haven’t seen a lyre bird do this either. I am learning so much from these reaction videos and going to their channels for more so thankyou. I also think it is a good point about the bird recreating extinct bird sounds that we may not recognise as it takes so long for them to perfect a sound. Amazing reaction video thankyou
That’s now my second favourite video. I absolutely love that bird and wow, that was so beautifully shot. I’ll definitely go back and watch that one again. Thanks for showing him to other parts of the world. Another great episode ladies. Thoroughly enjoyed it!.
When I was a kid we lived in the bush near Sydney. We had a group of them around our house. They do amazing other noises too. You can get them on RUclips. Zoos , birdparks etc. In our area they'd do motorbikes, chainsaws, guns, whips, the whip bird too ,that long high note that ends with the whip crack, mowers, we loved having them around. None where I live now. 😢 but lots of other colourful ones. You were right about the Kookaburra impression.
the David Attenborough vid is the best, shows how they can replicate car alarms, chainsaws, and cameras with shutter drives, which are just mindblowing. Humans cant do any of this. ps 14:08 "wasnt that a kookaburra he was imitating there?" YES it was! 👍 LOVE the Birdnerdshirt!
G'day There! When I was 11 in 1962 I attended a school camp at broken bay with small "dorms in the bush for 10 days of bushcraft etc...One morning we were woken at about 6 am by the sounds of children laughing and playing. Our 'teacher' was concerned that kids would be out unsupervised at that hour but no worries it was a Lyrebird doing an incredible job of mimicking kids at play! When they are very close to humans they also pick up sounds of cameras clicking and even car alarms amongst other mechanical sounds... Cheers!
Off topic but Natasha I watched your video the other evening about your mother’s passing. I lost my Dad in 2016 and it hit me so hard, I didn’t want to live. I lost my Mother in 2019 and although I’m 62 I feel like an orphan! I suffer with depressive and have just had the day from hell so I just wanted to share a big hug with you. I only came across yours and Debbie’s channel recently and you always make me laugh so thank you for cheering me up x
It would be interesting for you guys to watch a video on the anatomy of bird song. Many would be surprised to know that birds have two sets of vocal chords; one just above each lung, so they can operate these independently, thus the amazing range of sounds they can produce.
I was mostly aware of the 2 voice boxes that birds possess but I didn't know where they were located. That's cool, blow air thru one get a sound, blow thru both lungs get that amazing range of pitch that they've truly became masters at. Birds singing just puts me in a good mood because they're happiest when they sing. I would be too if I was world class !!
I love Lyre Birds. It surprised me that they don't imitate Sulphur Crested Cockatoos due to them only being in the area for 40 years (that also I didn't know about the Sherbrooke Forest). It surprised me because they imitate camera shutters, video games, chainsaws, mowers and other mechanical devices. Apologies for my long comment. Great reaction video.
👋 girls. The Lyre birds are on our 10 cent piece. The laughing sound was mimicking a bird called a Kookaburra. I wake up most mornings to them and many other varieties singing. Also, the variety of birds in the suburbs is amazing mainly because there are many native parks and reserves dotting the suburbs and along waterways. The sulphur crested cockatoos are great at mimicking humans and live very long lives. They are being little pests at the moment as they are trying to break apart my fences and fence posts with their beaks.
I'm utterly amazed! Beautiful. As I age, I've come to truly appreciate the bird (Australian type)....we have so many fabulous birds: the lorikeet, the Rosella, sulphur crested & black cockatoos, the pink and grey ones, budgies, kookaburras, kingfishers....and my favourite of all time: the Magpie. Thanks ladies for this! X
People say they hear the Tasmania tiger in the bush, they think it’s the lyre bird has passed the noise of the now extinct tiger down through generations
You'd be surprised just how close this forest is to suburbia. It would be worth it to take a look on Google Earth. I was born and raised in Melbourne, so the Dandenong Ranges were rather convenient to travel to on weekends. I now live in the north-east of the State of Victoria near the base of the Australian Alps (aka High Country). The array of birds seen here is incredibly impressive. I used to have Kookaburras 'laugh' at me when hauling in the firewood to be stacked, without fail. Those colourful red/blue birds are a Rosella. They also come in a green colour with touches of red. They tend to travel in pairs and in a number of areas where there has been human interaction, they will fly down and sit on your body and also eat seed from your hand. I had endless spectacular birds land in my small yard, but I did occasionally scatter some wild bird seed sparsely around. The King Parrott, which actually landed on my fence one day when I was lying in bed with its great long tail a sight to behold, almost became extinct in a town further north than the Dandenongs called Healesville due to the population over-feeding the birds and they lost their ability to fend for themselves. That's why I would only throw some special wild bird seed about on a rare occassion. It's never wise to over-feed wild species of any kind. The Bower Bird would be one of the annoying birds, as they love to collect colourful objects to line their nests with, which included my beautiful flowers! Despite having a bird phobia, I can appreciate them from a distance, just not too close up. It's the flapping of the wings that does it for me, which is the same with moths and butterflies. I literally cannot tolerate anything fluttering around me. The massive Bogong Moths can grow to the size of a sparrow! I did stay at a caravan park where many peacocks lived, including a few albino ones that were completely white. Although they can't fly, they sure can jump - right onto the roof of cabins or caravans making a terrible noise. It sounded like they were tap-dancing on the roof and there was no way to get them down. The long tail feathers, which they would drop, were incredible to decorate with, along with those deep jewel-tones of blue, greens and even gold with the dark 'eye' in the centre.🦚 The gentleman in the video mentioned the Lyre Bird could not replicate the sound of the Sulpher Crested Cockatoo due to not being in abundance around Melbourne, which is true. Unfortunately, many like to keep these large birds in small cages as cruel domesticated displays and set them free when they got tired of them. Melbourne has been growing quite rapidly in size, especially with many who immigrate to this city and become infatuated with these birds. It's not that difficult to source one. Many buy them in a hope they can teach them to talk, which in endless instances they do not, so are set free. This could be why they are only recently building up a population in Sherbrooke Forest due to being so close to the suburbs. (Only speculating here). They really can talk and I once had one 'woof-whistle' at me! If visiting Melbourne, without too much time to sight-see, the Dandenongs are a great place to visit, especially the brilliant gardens and indigenous sculture artistry of William Ricketts Sanctuary along the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road. It is indeed a sad loss at how many bird and other fauna species were killed during the 2019/2020 Bushfires. There is a big issue with domesticated cats continuously killing native birdlife in the Dandenongs and across the entire country. At least near the Dandenongs, they have a cat curfew, yet unfortunately for towns like mine, I quite regularly have domesticated cats from other people's properties come into my yard causing destruction to my garden and killing birds. It's impossible to even put up a bird feeder here, as it will only put these beautiful birds at risk. It's very sad that this issue isn't addressed and left to continue. I'm blessed to have witnessed the most beautiful of birds in the wild, where they belong, including an eagle that took off from a tree that I was walking past whilst hiking and watched as it soared through the valley. If we are going to keep these spectacular bird species alive, action needs to be taken over domesticated animals being left to run wild by City Councils who are too lazy to deal with the issue. Thanks so much for another entertaining video. The gentleman from this video appears to be quite knowledgeable and it would be interesting to see what else he has up his sleeve. If you have an interest in birds, looking at our large flightless ones may be of interest to you. I can definitely see your Channel taking off as more discover the uniqueness and hilarity of the topics you follow. I never knew it would be so much fun to learn about boiling water! Wishing you both the best for your Channel and I'll continue to share.🇦🇺💖👩🏼🎨🕊
I'm a "Birdnerd". I love living in Australia because of this (and other reasons of course) Our birdlife is wild. Favourite bird........probably the Satin Bowerbird just because I love the way it collects blue objects to decorate it's "bower". The Lyrebird is famous in Australia and is on our 10 cent coin. The "laughing" that you hear Is the Lyrebird mimicking laughter, but not human laughter, it's mimicking the call of the Kookaburra. (which sounds like laughter)
Hello Natasha and Debbie I really like your reaction to this amazing Australian bird they are very unique I had the pleasure of filming one of those birds a few years ago and it was a experience best wishes and many thanks for sharing stay safe and well 👌
I remember the legend that is Sir David Attenborough introducing the UK to this bird, trying to work the old grey cells here but i think it would be somewhere back in the 90's.
They had a clip on David Attenborough a few years ago - BBC Earth, he did car alarm, camera shutters & lumberjack It would drive you daft after more than 5 mins continuously, but it's incredible how they do it
Love the lyre bird, the one at Adelaide Zoo learnt the noises of construction (hammering, drills ect) while a new exhibit was being built. My favourite birds (because I can’t just have one) are the Plains Wanderer and the Tawny Frog Mouth
I'm not sure, but the camera shutter sound may have been the bird itself. They are known to imitate cameras and other man made noises, if they're fairly common in the area.
Okay, Aussie bird nerd here - the lyrebirds mimicked (not in order, sorry) the Whipbird (the RD2D bird), Australian Magpie, Laughing Kookaburra, King Parrot, Grey Shrike-Thrush, Little Shrike-thrush, Rufous Whistler, Golden Whistler, Crimson Rosella, Black Cockatoo, Spangled Drongo, Grey Butcherbird, Black Butcherbird, White-browed Scrub-wren, Pied Currawong, Grey Currawong - that's the 16 species I managed to pick out, but there were many others that I couldn't identify for certain - what an extraordinary creature! Thank you for showing this clip!
Just love you two you always bring lots of smiles to my face,because you are so natural nothing fake about you 2. Any way thanks for your video on Aussie birds and I’m Australian and learnt some interesting info. Thanks again for your show.
Wow that was fantastic footage. This was great and rare they are normally a very elusive bird that will scamper off at the slightest disturbance. I heard that during world war two, there were reports of Lyre birds imitating machine gun fire.
In Australia (I'm from Melbourne) we also have Indian Mynah birds, which are the country's worst introduced pest. Brought here in 1862 and now ubiquitous, they are in the world's top 100 invasive species. They also are incredible mimics. We have one in our backyard who learned to mimic the beeping tune of our washing machine completing its wash cycle. Now, every morning we get woken up to that sound. I just call it "the washing machine bird".
The laughing noise you asked about was what kookaburras sound like. Every morning you hear them in lots of places around the country. I also heard black cockatoo calls. (My territory’s bird)
That was an amazing video, and a fabulous reaction. I was in the bush one time and stopped to listen to a Lyrebird for an hour, he/she was going off non stop, it was like a rave, doing doov doovs and ts ts stuff and car alarms and r2d2 bits, it was relentless, sublime, and mind blowing... I must go back. I picked up quite a few natives from this video, obvious to me were the Magpie and the Black Cockatoo. Some of the other pretty birds you saw were The Green King Parrot and Rosellas. Thanks for this video.
ha ha so impressed and you don't even know what he is imitating. They, the lyre birds, imitated those other bird calls so well. On the weekend I got footage of the male dancing with his tail over his head and the female dancing with him under his tail both going round and round in circles. Soo good
We thought the Northern Mockingbird was great at the mimic but the Superb Lyre Bird is the grand champion! In this episode we get to see and hear the Lyre Bird for the FIRST TIME EVER! He even shows his mating dance and song too! This was beautifully filmed and was such a shock to us at just how magnificent this bird really is! While we didn't learn many facts, seeing and hearing was absolutely incredible! Let us know how common the Lyre bird is and if they are in residential areas or just the forests. LOVED this! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Right after the R2D2, that laughing sound was a kookaburra call. And a really good one too.
Those camera sounds are likely to be from the lyrebird itself. They have been recorded imitating cameras, car alarms and even chainsaws.
That wasn't a lyre bird it was a Scouse pub Friday night 😂
While these lyre birds were impressive they're put to shame by the birds in david Attenborough's film. It's easy to find on Google
This video shows a picture of each bird the lyrebird is mimicking the calls of.
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Yes, the laughing sound it is mimicking is a pitch perfect Kookaburra call. They will also mimic man made sounds like camera shutters, camera motor winds, chainsaws, childrens toys (incl. R2D2!), car alarms, hammers hammering, crosscut saws, babies crying.....pretty much anything they hear.....and do it perfectly.
Yes! The footage of a lyrebird mimicking a human baby crying is quite astounding!
But it does make me wonder about the explanation regarding the sulphur crested cockatoos. If a single bird in captivity can learn to mimic a baby crying, why would the cockatoo be a problem with 30 or 40 years exposure?
I'm Australian and have seen a lyrebird live, and so many videos of them but watching it make the kookaburra call has me all discombobulated! It reminded me of the first time I ate a yellow cherry tomato - properly surreal!
When I was a kid (35 - 40 years ago), I once heard one mimicking gunshots.
I've seen vids of them imitating cell phone ring and text tones.
@@HandmadeDarcy Same experience (Melbourne).
Hi Ladies, great reaction. If you liked this, you absolutely have to see the David Attenborough clip on the Lyrebird. It has to be seen/heard to be believed - honest. It includes the bird mimicking a chainsdaw, among other things!👍👍
its an amazing clip to show the range of non-animal sounds they can make too, especially the sounds of the tree falling during the chainsaw impression. ive included a link below to the clip for those that want to check it out.
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Some lyrebirds near parking lots in national parks have learned the sound of car alarms...
And the camerman’s shutters and clicks.
The first time I saw the Attenborough clip, I was sure that I was being pranked. The chain saw sound was so real that I thought it had to be a mockumentary.
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Do the Sir David Attenborough version, they do chainsaws, camera shutters, all sorts,
It’s crazy
The reason they’re called lyrebirds is because the shape of their tail feathers is reminiscent of the arms of a lyre (musical instrument)
The car alarm, chain saw and baby crying crack me up.
@@Quinctilithe seagull got me giggling
And because they are “liars”.
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I'm Australian and i didn't know that. i thought it was because they were 'liars'. :D
All these sounds are PERFECTLY mimicking specific birds, the crazy laugh is the laughing kookaburra,probably the most iconic Aussie bird tied with the emu and Australian magpie
So I work at a wildlife sanctuary in Vic, Australia, and we have a resident Lyrebird. He loves to sing and dance for visitors this time of year, and he has quiet the interesting noise selection due to all the things around the sanctuary, including construction sounds, sounds used in our bird show, and he even shared his cage with a bower bird (another mimic) for a while, and they taught each other some noises!
Also, those extra animals at the start, in order are a male King Parrot, Crimson Rosellas, Swamp Wallaby, and Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo! Then at 16:28 we have some Grey Kangaroos and a little Eastern Yellow Robin.
Prior to the 2009 fires, I know that lyrebirds in Kinglake used to make the sound of old double handled manual tree saws from a hundred years ago. The sound being passed down from adult to chicks! I don't know how many, if any, lyrebirds survived that awful day. Do you?
@@triarb5790 so it has actually been documented in bad bushfires like around Kinglake, Lyrebirds take cover in underground spaces, usually wombat burrows. So while not all escape the flames a good number do
CRIMSON Rosellas not "scarlet" FFS
They are such good mimics and beautiful birds. I remember, at the end of last year, some lions escape their enclosure at Taronga Zoo (Sydney), which of course set off the evacuation alarm and it was all over the news, then a few days later, turned on the news to find out that the Zoo's resident Lyrebird (named Echo) had started using the alarm in his song, right down to even saying the words 'evacuate now', and this was not long after he had started using crying baby sounds. Truly amazing birds
Where you thought the lyrebird was mimicking human laughter, it was actually mimicking the sound of a kookaburra, another iconic Australian bird.
There is nothing more relaxing or amazing, to sit deep in the Aussie bush, listening to Lyrebirds doing their thing!
Just to let you know (and not many people know this): the snapping 'laser gun' sounds the bird makes is not actually a sound he's mimicking, but is actually the lyrebird's natural call. It's the only sound that is natural to that bird and not a mimic. 🙂
Some folk still dont believe it's real.
Sir David doesnt lie! 🙂🙃
Amazing bird ❤
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After the Lyre Bird, ladies if your into birds that dance take a look at Australian Bower Birds or the Brolgas who are members of Crane family species .
@@optimusvalerius8824 Brolgas can be viscous buggers. There was one living in the street of some town in FNQ that made the news for wandering up and down the main street getting pissed off if he wasn't fed or shown attention.
Check out the end of David Attenbough's Life of birds. The lyrebird does chainsaws, cameras. Fabulous stuff.
In Sydney earlier this year they had lion cubs escape there enclosure at the zoo, the zoo sounded an alarm and an emergency message to leave the zoo. By the next day the resident lyrebird was doing the alarm and message.
@ 10.35 he's not only mimicking 1 kookaburra but briefly 2 at the same time, amazing birds❤
Lyrebirds in zoos and sanctuaries in the major cities come out with some interesting sounds. They can accurately imitate sirens, alarms, camera shutter clicks, phone ring tones, the sounds of car doors opening and closing, as well as the sounds of the other birds both native and exotic, and some other animals they can hear from their enclosure.
I have two favourite Australian birds: Wedge Tailed eagle, and Cassowary.
The one where Debbie stopped the video and asked if someone had been laughing in the Forest was the lyrebird mimicking a Kookaburra. They make that characteristic laugh - it’s a quintessentially Australian sound. The Kookaburra is a member of the Kingfisher family... you may enjoy videos of the Kookaburra too!
A visit to my grandparents in the coastal bush, always included a symphony by the resident lyrebird.
It could bark like a dog. It drove the dog crazy calling out her name. And one time, had an entire rescue crew searching for hours for what sounded like a crying child. They were not happy to discover that it was not a child that was responsible for the crying. 😅
This is the area I grew up in, and we could hear them singing all the time in breeding season. To say it was magical is to deny the true wonder of it
The red/green bird is a king parrot, the red/blue bird is a rosella. The laughing call the lyrebird makes is a mimic of the kookaburra. The photo shutter noise you heard was also the lyrebird. They also make very convincing chainsaw calls.
This post is Superb, in every way, shape and form! I'm a 73 year old Australian Male, and by heck, NEVER have I seen, in all my years, such beautiful, fabulous sounds and images as I've seen here. More than Brilliant!. Thank you two SO much!.
That's the best imitation of an Australian saying Melbourne that I've ever heard from an American. 👍
They can apparently mimic a chain saw perfectly.
The biggest thing I missed from Australia when I had to live overseas was the birdsong in the morning, even in the suburbs it's so cool. My favorite is the whip birds call while the plover call always sends a cold shiver up my spine.
I think I may have suggested this for you guys. Glad you like it. As the bloke said the Lyre bird did about 10 to 15 other birds right there . They copy whatever they are exposed to , like sounds from a construction site, cameras, and my grandfather heard one making the sound of a man chopping wood. For many years we never knew what the birds actual call was because it does every other bird . They are very pretty and elusive .
Another fascinating Aussie bird is the Bower bird . The male builds a little nest and decorates it with blue objects and does a dance for the ladies . They are a beautiful metallic blue colour .
by watching this video goes to show how proud to be an australian
They also mimic human noises like chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters (which you mentioned) and people coughing. They are absolutely amazing. The calls I recognized are, Black cockatoo, Noisy minor, Whip bird, Currawong, Magpie, Kookaburra (the laughing), and Willy Wagtail and maybe Lorikeet. Birds are awesome and the dawn chorus in Australia is really something to experience.
I think there was a crow in there as well.
There probably was, there were a few in there I didn't recognize as I'm from Queensland and they're in the south of the country. I think a couple of those parrots like the Rosella are in there too, but we don't get them up here so I'm not sure what their calls sound like.@@davidmc105
@@trevorpom Also heard a pigeon sound 😂
Some years ago, my Aussie grandsons gifted me a cd (yes, I said some years ago!) entitled "sounds of a Queensland rain forest". It includes many bird songs and calls, amongst other voices of nature. I often use it as an aid to sleep. I suggest you try something similar. Thx for another great video. ❤
There is also a CD of lyrebirds of South Gippsland.
David Attenborough does a good documentary on these and the sounds they mimic are insane…… another for you bird lovers to look for if visiting Scotland you may be lucky to spot the capercaillie, thanks for the video again ladies❤ the capercaillie doesn’t mimic but during mating season it’s just a one off sound to hear
I love the lyrebird. My favourite bird sounds is that of the Whipbird , but my favourite bird of all time is the family pet Cockatoo "Cockie" he has been in the family for 40 years . He learnt to mimic not only Dads voice but his whistle as well , being a farmer Dad controlled his dogs via whistle...you can image the dogs confusion when Dad whistled one order than Cockie another .😅
I absolutely loved getting David Attenborough’s films!
They can mimic human sounds too there’s a video of one with David Attenborough doing camera shutter sounds and a chain saw.
I live in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The Lyrebird is here too and we see and hear them regularly. There is even one in the bush on the other side of our street. You know they are there firstly by their scratching of the ground searching for food and then the Lyrebird call. They are fantastic to see and hear. The male has gorgeous feathers. They adorn our 10c coin.
Omg they definitely are superb st mimicking! I definitely recognise many if the bird calls it was making, and the laughing one was of the Kookaburra! What a fantastic talent it has!
Kookaburra, Whip bird, Currawong, motor on camera, Black Cockatoo, Finches and various different Parrots from what I could hear. It's name comes from those incredible tail feathers - they are shaped like the musical instrument, the Lyre.
You know how sometimes coincidences happen and they mean nothing to anyone but yourself but they’re so odd you feel you have to tell someone?
So I’m reading a new nature book to my 6 year old yesterday at bedtime and it has a section on tropical birds (not the Lyre bird though). So I tell him about this amazing naturalist whose work I was brought up on in the UK in the 80s and who introduced many of us to some of the amazing, little-known creatures we share this planet with.
Then I bring up some of David Attenborough’s videos on YT and the first one we watch is a 14 year old upload from a 1990s show where David Attenborough tells us all about the Lyre Bird. My 6 year old LOVES it - especially the camera shutter and chainsaw sounds and proceeds to show his mum and brothers the same video twice this evening.
We have a chuckle and move on. Then 3 hours later, this shows up in my subscriptions feed. The chances of that happening are not zero, but they’re not a LOT higher than zero…
Sometimes those coincidences are hard to accept as being pure chance…
Looking forward to this one, ladies. :)
That is so cool! We don't believe in coincidences. Everything happens for a reason! Thank you for sharing! ❤❤
Sir David is an absolute worldwide blessing.
Your phone is listening to you and it suggests videos on RUclips and ads as well. This happens to me all the time. Unless you are subscribed to this channel.
I live very close to the forest in the video. I’ll never forget going on a walk there when I was a child. I kept hearing a car revving the engine and jumped off the track because I thought I was about to be run over. It wasn’t until after that I realised no cars could get in there and it must have been a lyrebird. It sounded identical!
Hi Ladies! The Lyrebird gets its name from the shape of the tail plumage. When it is held upright like a peacock tail, it looks like a Lyre (musical instrument) complete with "strings". The laughter is a copy of the kookaburra's call. That sound that the old "African" movies used to get lampooned about (Tarzan, Jungle Jim etc) as kookaburras are only native to Australia and NOT Africa. The red and blue parrots are one form of rosellas. Many Australian birds can sound like many other things. I also noted whip birds in the audio (similar to a whip cracking). I still remember my poor father just after he bought his brand-new car and I was a little kid at the time (not yesterday). We went down bellbird gully to see and hear the bellbirds. Poor dad couldn't figure out where the squeaking in his brand-new car was coming from, so he stopped the car and searched all around it scratching his head. While bellbirds can sound like a crystal bell they can also sound like squeaking. You should also check out the video of the lyrebird (don't have its URL currently) where the bird mimics a space invaders machine, a camera with a motor drive, a chainsaw etc. You should also check out video of New Guinea Birds of Paradise, a lot of them pull long tails over heads to display
The kookaburra's call was also used in the opening scenes of 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' - set in the Amazonian rainforest!
"Where's your Dance?" I laughed out loud to that Debbie. But may I add? Ladies, it's not just your agreeable personalities, but the wide and varied subject matters you watch and get enthusiastic about. Love, Light and Peace!
Thanks so very much 😊
I've been to Australia. They have the best animals, birds, water animal s and plants. I love Australia. Barb thank you.
What an amazingly beautiful bird. We're blessed to have it. Thanks ladies.
It's always fun hiking in a valley, and all you can hear is all their calls
One of my favourite birds
Hi from Australia. Could I respectfully request that if you enjoy birds with amazing colours (aussie spelling!) please google Gouldian Finches. Their colours are extremely 'defined'. Take care. Love your channel.
What a bird , clever good looking and has some cool moves . This guy got some great footage and beautiful shots . Really enjoyed being entertained by the bird and you guys . I enjoy watching Natasha watching birds she lights up 😍😀🥰
She does Mandy, it's great to see her so happy
there is some iconic David Attenborough footage of a lyre bird in a rain forest, where it imitates not only other birds, but different the sound of different types of cameras taking photos and the chainsaws of the logging companies which is totally amazing
I love listening to the bell birds & maggies
actually love all of our bird songs & calls... there was a whip bird call in all that!
Thank you for showing this. What an incredible bird. Nature can be such a beautiful thing.
I saved a baby pigeon yesterday evening.
It must have fell out the nest and it was sat on my garden bench.
It just about had all its feathers and wasn't scared of me.
Theres loads of cats next door so I put on some gloves and picked it up and put it on top of the log store that touches the conifer trees.
When I came back in the garden it had climbed in to the conifers and I could hear it flapping about in there.
It wasn't cat food last night.
Many years ago my husband and I came back from a night out and on the way to bed I saw 2 pigeons sitting on the landing windowsill so I took them in. The hen was a pure white fantail so pretty and the cockpit was a grey colour. We bought a shed for them the next day and went on to have lots of squabs that were a mix of colours. A year later my brother asked if I could look after his 2 ducks and of course I said yes so had to buy a kids pool for them lol we also had 2 dogs and a cat . I'm glad you saved that bird.
they are amazing birds and can mimic everyday things too. Sherbrooke forest is stunning, all around that area is, spent a lot of time exploring around there when we lived in Victoria.
They are amazing mimics. I have heard (from several sources) about them mimicking steam trains back in the day. Including the whistling, and the varying echoes as the train slowly came up around each hill.
I think they're the ones in the forest around Belgave where Puffing Billy is.
@@kevkoala They may well do so. The stories I was told referred to some of the old lines out of Ballarat, and down in the Otways.
@@dfross87 The Otways would be the old Beechy, same rolling stock and locomotives as Puffing Billy.
@@kevkoala Forrest line, though the Beechy would certainly have been a good candidate.
@@dfross87 Yeah, that's in the area as well.
The lyrebird imitating a kookaburra is the best thing ever. The chainsaw is also very impressive
I’m an Aussie and I haven’t seen a lyre bird do this either. I am learning so much from these reaction videos and going to their channels for more so thankyou. I also think it is a good point about the bird recreating extinct bird sounds that we may not recognise as it takes so long for them to perfect a sound. Amazing reaction video thankyou
yeah it can be hard and often you just see them but then I haven't going to Sherbrooke in the winter. Will next winter now.
I’ve seen videos of Lyrebirds mimicking a chainsaw, a camera shutter, a car motor and various other mechanical sounds. “Superb” Is an understatement.
This was so wonderful to watch, beautiful scenery and one extremely impressive bird. The Lyre bird is now on my list of favourite birds 😄👍
Lovely video,nice to hear bird calls,very smoothly and calming❤
That’s now my second favourite video. I absolutely love that bird and wow, that was so beautifully shot. I’ll definitely go back and watch that one again. Thanks for showing him to other parts of the world. Another great episode ladies. Thoroughly enjoyed it!.
When I was a kid we lived in the bush near Sydney. We had a group of them around our house. They do amazing other noises too. You can get them on RUclips. Zoos , birdparks etc. In our area they'd do motorbikes, chainsaws, guns, whips, the whip bird too ,that long high note that ends with the whip crack, mowers, we loved having them around.
None where I live now. 😢 but lots of other colourful ones.
You were right about the Kookaburra impression.
I loved this video. That did sound like r2d2 oh loved the graphics too . What a beautiful bird aswell.
That was amazing I think David Attenborough has done a documentary on this bird thank you ladies for a great video 😊.
the David Attenborough vid is the best, shows how they can replicate car alarms, chainsaws, and cameras with shutter drives, which are just mindblowing. Humans cant do any of this. ps 14:08 "wasnt that a kookaburra he was imitating there?" YES it was! 👍 LOVE the Birdnerdshirt!
I love thes lyre and they amusing too😂😊❤ he's a big show off lol
I love the video I saw a couple of years ago where a Lyre Bird mimicked a screaming baby PERFECTLY. 😂
G'day There! When I was 11 in 1962 I attended a school camp at broken bay with small "dorms in the bush for 10 days of bushcraft etc...One morning we were woken at about 6 am by the sounds of children laughing and playing. Our 'teacher' was concerned that kids would be out unsupervised at that hour but no worries it was a Lyrebird doing an incredible job of mimicking kids at play! When they are very close to humans they also pick up sounds of cameras clicking and even car alarms amongst other mechanical sounds... Cheers!
Off topic but Natasha I watched your video the other evening about your mother’s passing. I lost my Dad in 2016 and it hit me so hard, I didn’t want to live. I lost my Mother in 2019 and although I’m 62 I feel like an orphan! I suffer with depressive and have just had the day from hell so I just wanted to share a big hug with you. I only came across yours and Debbie’s channel recently and you always make me laugh so thank you for cheering me up x
It's the hardest thing to experience. But we can learn to carry it. Love to you & a hug 🫂
It would be interesting for you guys to watch a video on the anatomy of bird song. Many would be surprised to know that birds have two sets of vocal chords; one just above each lung, so they can operate these independently, thus the amazing range of sounds they can produce.
I was mostly aware of the 2 voice boxes that birds possess but I didn't know where they were located. That's cool, blow air thru one get a sound, blow thru both lungs get that amazing range of pitch that they've truly became masters at. Birds singing just puts me in a good mood because they're happiest when they sing. I would be too if I was world class !!
I love these birds and I love being Australian it makes me happy when others want to learn about my home.
I love Lyre Birds. It surprised me that they don't imitate Sulphur Crested Cockatoos due to them only being in the area for 40 years (that also I didn't know about the Sherbrooke Forest). It surprised me because they imitate camera shutters, video games, chainsaws, mowers and other mechanical devices.
Apologies for my long comment. Great reaction video.
I guess if you go to NSW you’d find ones that mimicking Sulphur Crested Cockatoos.
@@Scooterboi60Lyre Birds are forest dwellers and Sulphur Crested Cockatoos eat seed and therefore prefer to live in grasslands.
@@petermcculloch4933 There are lots of cockies in the Dandenongs / Lyre bird habitat.
Loved the video, first time seeing and hearing the Lyrebird. So glad you both enjoyed watching and listening to a great Australian mimic 😊
👋 girls. The Lyre birds are on our 10 cent piece. The laughing sound was mimicking a bird called a Kookaburra. I wake up most mornings to them and many other varieties singing. Also, the variety of birds in the suburbs is amazing mainly because there are many native parks and reserves dotting the suburbs and along waterways. The sulphur crested cockatoos are great at mimicking humans and live very long lives. They are being little pests at the moment as they are trying to break apart my fences and fence posts with their beaks.
I'm utterly amazed! Beautiful.
As I age, I've come to truly appreciate the bird (Australian type)....we have so many fabulous birds: the lorikeet, the Rosella, sulphur crested & black cockatoos, the pink and grey ones, budgies, kookaburras, kingfishers....and my favourite of all time: the Magpie.
Thanks ladies for this! X
People say they hear the Tasmania tiger in the bush, they think it’s the lyre bird has passed the noise of the now extinct tiger down through generations
You'd be surprised just how close this forest is to suburbia. It would be worth it to take a look on Google Earth. I was born and raised in Melbourne, so the Dandenong Ranges were rather convenient to travel to on weekends. I now live in the north-east of the State of Victoria near the base of the Australian Alps (aka High Country). The array of birds seen here is incredibly impressive. I used to have Kookaburras 'laugh' at me when hauling in the firewood to be stacked, without fail. Those colourful red/blue birds are a Rosella. They also come in a green colour with touches of red. They tend to travel in pairs and in a number of areas where there has been human interaction, they will fly down and sit on your body and also eat seed from your hand. I had endless spectacular birds land in my small yard, but I did occasionally scatter some wild bird seed sparsely around. The King Parrott, which actually landed on my fence one day when I was lying in bed with its great long tail a sight to behold, almost became extinct in a town further north than the Dandenongs called Healesville due to the population over-feeding the birds and they lost their ability to fend for themselves. That's why I would only throw some special wild bird seed about on a rare occassion. It's never wise to over-feed wild species of any kind. The Bower Bird would be one of the annoying birds, as they love to collect colourful objects to line their nests with, which included my beautiful flowers! Despite having a bird phobia, I can appreciate them from a distance, just not too close up. It's the flapping of the wings that does it for me, which is the same with moths and butterflies. I literally cannot tolerate anything fluttering around me. The massive Bogong Moths can grow to the size of a sparrow! I did stay at a caravan park where many peacocks lived, including a few albino ones that were completely white. Although they can't fly, they sure can jump - right onto the roof of cabins or caravans making a terrible noise. It sounded like they were tap-dancing on the roof and there was no way to get them down. The long tail feathers, which they would drop, were incredible to decorate with, along with those deep jewel-tones of blue, greens and even gold with the dark 'eye' in the centre.🦚 The gentleman in the video mentioned the Lyre Bird could not replicate the sound of the Sulpher Crested Cockatoo due to not being in abundance around Melbourne, which is true. Unfortunately, many like to keep these large birds in small cages as cruel domesticated displays and set them free when they got tired of them. Melbourne has been growing quite rapidly in size, especially with many who immigrate to this city and become infatuated with these birds. It's not that difficult to source one. Many buy them in a hope they can teach them to talk, which in endless instances they do not, so are set free. This could be why they are only recently building up a population in Sherbrooke Forest due to being so close to the suburbs. (Only speculating here). They really can talk and I once had one 'woof-whistle' at me! If visiting Melbourne, without too much time to sight-see, the Dandenongs are a great place to visit, especially the brilliant gardens and indigenous sculture artistry of William Ricketts Sanctuary along the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road. It is indeed a sad loss at how many bird and other fauna species were killed during the 2019/2020 Bushfires. There is a big issue with domesticated cats continuously killing native birdlife in the Dandenongs and across the entire country. At least near the Dandenongs, they have a cat curfew, yet unfortunately for towns like mine, I quite regularly have domesticated cats from other people's properties come into my yard causing destruction to my garden and killing birds. It's impossible to even put up a bird feeder here, as it will only put these beautiful birds at risk. It's very sad that this issue isn't addressed and left to continue. I'm blessed to have witnessed the most beautiful of birds in the wild, where they belong, including an eagle that took off from a tree that I was walking past whilst hiking and watched as it soared through the valley. If we are going to keep these spectacular bird species alive, action needs to be taken over domesticated animals being left to run wild by City Councils who are too lazy to deal with the issue.
Thanks so much for another entertaining video. The gentleman from this video appears to be quite knowledgeable and it would be interesting to see what else he has up his sleeve. If you have an interest in birds, looking at our large flightless ones may be of interest to you. I can definitely see your Channel taking off as more discover the uniqueness and hilarity of the topics you follow. I never knew it would be so much fun to learn about boiling water! Wishing you both the best for your Channel and I'll continue to share.🇦🇺💖👩🏼🎨🕊
I'm a "Birdnerd". I love living in Australia because of this (and other reasons of course) Our birdlife is wild. Favourite bird........probably the Satin Bowerbird just because I love the way it collects blue objects to decorate it's "bower".
The Lyrebird is famous in Australia and is on our 10 cent coin.
The "laughing" that you hear Is the Lyrebird mimicking laughter, but not human laughter, it's mimicking the call of the Kookaburra. (which sounds like laughter)
Love watching Lyre birds they are fab.
Hello Natasha and Debbie I really like your reaction to this amazing Australian bird they are very unique I had the pleasure of filming one of those birds a few years ago and it was a experience best wishes and many thanks for sharing stay safe and well 👌
I remember the legend that is Sir David Attenborough introducing the UK to this bird, trying to work the old grey cells here but i think it would be somewhere back in the 90's.
This is why Australians love our country :D
They had a clip on David Attenborough a few years ago - BBC Earth, he did car alarm, camera shutters & lumberjack
It would drive you daft after more than 5 mins continuously, but it's incredible how they do it
Beautiful bird, beautiful country.
Can't say that I am a 'bird person', but that was truly entertaining and amazing. Ok Aussies, give you bragging rights on that one.
Love the lyre bird, the one at Adelaide Zoo learnt the noises of construction (hammering, drills ect) while a new exhibit was being built. My favourite birds (because I can’t just have one) are the Plains Wanderer and the Tawny Frog Mouth
Love love love the sound of whip bird. It reminds me of australian rainforests ❤
I love the Dandenong Ranges. Bird life is amazing. So proud of my state
My favourite Aussie bird is the magpie. So smart and a beautiful song.
The Australian Magpie is an amazing mimic as well
That immediately brings to mind the magpie in Newcastle NSW mimicking the fire trucks during the bushfires, amazing!✌🏼
And a beautiful song along with the grey Butcher bird.
@@Reneesillycar74 Yes I remember that
Great video really enjoyed it what an amazing bird
I'm not sure, but the camera shutter sound may have been the bird itself. They are known to imitate cameras and other man made noises, if they're fairly common in the area.
I love Lyrebirds. I'm lucky enough to see them sometimes when I'm hiking in the national park not far from my home.
Thankyou Ladies, that was most enjoyable
Okay, Aussie bird nerd here - the lyrebirds mimicked (not in order, sorry) the Whipbird (the RD2D bird), Australian Magpie, Laughing Kookaburra, King Parrot, Grey Shrike-Thrush, Little Shrike-thrush, Rufous Whistler, Golden Whistler, Crimson Rosella, Black Cockatoo, Spangled Drongo, Grey Butcherbird, Black Butcherbird, White-browed Scrub-wren, Pied Currawong, Grey Currawong - that's the 16 species I managed to pick out, but there were many others that I couldn't identify for certain - what an extraordinary creature! Thank you for showing this clip!
Just love you two you always bring lots of smiles to my face,because you are so natural nothing fake about you 2. Any way thanks for your video on Aussie birds and I’m Australian and learnt some interesting info. Thanks again for your show.
Wow that was fantastic footage. This was great and rare they are normally a very elusive bird that will scamper off at the slightest disturbance. I heard that during world war two, there were reports of Lyre birds imitating machine gun fire.
In Australia (I'm from Melbourne) we also have Indian Mynah birds, which are the country's worst introduced pest. Brought here in 1862 and now ubiquitous, they are in the world's top 100 invasive species. They also are incredible mimics. We have one in our backyard who learned to mimic the beeping tune of our washing machine completing its wash cycle. Now, every morning we get woken up to that sound. I just call it "the washing machine bird".
The laughing noise you asked about was what kookaburras sound like. Every morning you hear them in lots of places around the country. I also heard black cockatoo calls. (My territory’s bird)
They are named after the ancient Lyre (Harp) as their tail fans up to look like the harp. Stunning. Google a pic it's worth it
That was an amazing video, and a fabulous reaction. I was in the bush one time and stopped to listen to a Lyrebird for an hour, he/she was going off non stop, it was like a rave, doing doov doovs and ts ts stuff and car alarms and r2d2 bits, it was relentless, sublime, and mind blowing... I must go back. I picked up quite a few natives from this video, obvious to me were the Magpie and the Black Cockatoo. Some of the other pretty birds you saw were The Green King Parrot and Rosellas.
Thanks for this video.
It's great seeing them in real life. I see them often where i live
ha ha so impressed and you don't even know what he is imitating. They, the lyre birds, imitated those other bird calls so well. On the weekend I got footage of the male dancing with his tail over his head and the female dancing with him under his tail both going round and round in circles. Soo good
The typing lyre bird. This is cool, I’m a bird nerd too and loved this.