Lyre Bird

David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimics the calls of other birds - and chainsaws and camera shutters - in this video clip from The Life of Birds. This clever creature is one of the most impressive and funny in nature, with unbelievable sounds to match the beautiful pictures. This is live animal photography at its very best!

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• BBC
• Bird
• Birds
• Impressions
• Life
• Lyre
• Sound
• Worldwide
• mother
• nature
• wild

[NielsDouglas]

"And next, a man clearing his throat while a gale force wind knocks off his hat."

[krilldocument]

Someone needs to but a player out there with a cut of classical music and see what he does with that!

[HellstickTK]

0:36 so THAT is how they made the voice for R2D2

[Faltzerbeast90]

wow thats so awesome...can't believe it can actually imitate sounds that aren't in nature.

[ThePenginLover]

It's like a Jabberjay!! :D

[eddy536]

try to play that bird deathmetal LOL

[oliverecords]

Can people be that deaf or naive?

[HomicidalHecate]

Is it pronounced "lier?" Because that would make sense, haha.

[environmentinfocus]

Soon seing Lyre will be as unusual as seing a bear in the forest. Fact is that beard species are disapering at a fast rate because of human involvment.

Se my article about the matter at

wwwenvironmentinfocuscom

Thanks for a great video. Nice to se that so many still cares about birds. cheers to you all.

[ICHoff10]

Holy poop

[rmartty89]

the four people who disliked this got out beat boxed by the lyre bird

[CheerLuvr42695]

this is amazing how ah bird can do that!!!