Lyre Bird - Sherbrooke Falls

[musicianhayd]

Thank you for actually putting up a video of a lyrebird being a lyrebird! I swear 90% of youtube's lyrebird videos are lyrebirds imitating human machinery...

(Also, on an unrelated note, why is there not a simple "cool" option in the youtube comment 'Reactions' drop-down menu...)

[lizaix11]

i want one DX lol cool vid XD

[FatmaMj4Ever]

this bird is amazing

[SushiBabieL4D]

beautiful hehe.

XD

[flavaball]

i think the video is great.  they are so hard to catch on camera- just too shy.

[DrkRonin03]

I'll have you know that's a female lyre bird.

[DR0048]

I saw a lyrebird today while I was in the Strzelecki Ranges. Pitty it started running just as I was about to get my video camera ready.

[zhivana]

she is a female, thats why she isn't imitating other bird calls. the males do that as part of their mating ritual.

[mistahd33]

@zhivana ahh right you are! thanks for pointing that out :D

[svrwthr]

Wasn't that a female? The males have longer tails for display and do the mimicking sounds to attract the female. Maybe that is why this video was boring, because it is a female.

[mistahd33]

@svrwthr Yeah right you are thanks for pointing that out, sorry it was boring for you.

[Raider5k]

i think most people will be semi disappointed when they see one haha. i bet people have such high expectations of them and expect to here a shotgun or something weird come out of the strait away

[gotbannedbefore]

you lucky bastard i have always wanted to see a lyre bird in real life

[robotpanda77]

I heard these birds can imitate sounds, but apparantly its imitating a boring bird.

[Howrseylover]

@robotpanda77 You only think that because this video is displaying a female. Only the males make the imitations.

[RubyBearCub3]

@robotpanda77 this ones a female, only males imitate sounds

[TheLonelyImmortal]

Do something cool!

[oryxfreeride]

Do they actually imitate noises well like mr. idiot attenburough claims?

[mistahd33]

Yep, they have one of the widest vocabularies of any bird in the world. Loggers in the old days at Lake mountain used to trip out because they could hear ox drawn log wagons on dirt/stone roads off in the middle of the bush where they knew there were no dirt roads.. it was the lyrebirds immitating the noise of the wagon wheels and ox hoofs on the stone road. :)

[oryxfreeride]

lol that's pretty cool. I wonder how long before they realized it was just a bird :)

[m1dlguk]

@oryxfreeride or should I say mr. idiot oryxfreeride, David Attenborough is quite possibly the most intelligent naturalist about and can only be seconded by perhaps Charles Darwin or Alfred Russel Wallace. He doesn't 'claim' anything, he presents information that is factual and consistently accurate. I, like millions of others, have been educated in a way far greater than any classroom has as a direct result of his hard work. I see no reason to consider him an idiot, but as for you, I do.

[biologiascom]

Where did you find this one?

[mistahd33]

Sherbrooke Falls :) Sherbrooke Forest, Mt. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. :)

[aussiedanoiskool]

my girl works there lol

[verticalsmurf]

Wow, you are lucky to have seen that - and to have had a camera at the ready!

[crazymarf]

Cmon that not funny the least. Cant you just admire a beautiful bird?

[AtoliAkumu12]

no u

[frog654456]

:( lol

[LtKnatt]

you´re ugly, too but nobody´s shooting you!

[NinjaFanGirl]

if he keeps it up someone might

[LtKnatt]

Well it wouldn't be a total lost, but lets hope someone just kicks his ass a little!

[girabbit85]

or are they...?

[TasiaBrooklyn]

I stand corrected, you guys. There are too many Attenboroughs for me to keep them all straight. XD

[SpaQueenRocks]

that wasn't startling at all

[qorma]

Can this bird fly ? or is it handicapped ? lol

[mistahd33]

It can -sorta- fly.. kinda like how a chicken can fly.. it spends all of its time in the thickest rainforest that it can find so the amount of undergrowth doesn't permit much flying from a bird of its size so it doesn't get much of a chance. This one was alerting its nearby friend of my being there.

[1210donna]

lovely

[TasiaBrooklyn]

Aw, damn...and here I was waiting for it to imitate Richard Attenborough.

[TarlaTorres6012]

Lolz,omg ur comment had me rotflmfao,aahahahah,gotta luv diz byrd

[xyz4now]

LOL

[roundhere1]

you mean david

[1candideov]

that's David Attenborough

[Snuilp]

LOL! I forgive you mistaken his first name. It's a very funny thought! :D

Like:

"And here we are in.." 2X

"It imitates at least.." 1X

"Nature!" 3X

"Hello!" 2X

"Änd welcome.." 1X

Hahaha LOL! :D

[langalafootlucha]

iam first sorry iam nani

[Egyptianhound]

huh?

(RE langalafootlucha)