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the only bird that can roast you in chainsaw, camera shutter, and crying baby.
means An Australian ground-dwelling songbird famous for its extraordinary ability to mimic almost any sound it hears, named for the male's spectacular tail that fans into the shape of a lyre during courtship displays.
from From the lyre, the ancient Greek stringed instrument, joined to plain old 'bird.' When Europeans first encountered the male's tail spread wide in display, its sweeping curved plumes and pale filaments looked uncannily like the frame and strings of a lyre — so the bird was named for the resemblance, an English coinage of the early 19th century. The lyre itself takes its name from Greek 'lyra,' an instrument old enough to be plucked in myth by Orpheus.
- perfect mimic
- Copies car alarms, dogs, and human voices flawlessly
- chainsaw remix
- Wild ones imitate forest logging machinery
- tail show
- Males fan a lyre-shaped tail to seduce
- ancient lineage
- Among the oldest of all songbirds
- on money
- Featured on Australia's 10-cent coin
superb lyrebird — native to southeastern australia, can perfectly mimic over 20 bird species and chainsaws, car alarms, human speech
albert's lyrebird — critically endangered species found only in rainforests of northeast queensland, australia