Superb Lyrebird

• comunicaciónIt can reproduce complex artificial sounds with great fidelity, chainsaws and camera shutters included, working them into its territorial song.
• It mimics anything it hears regularly: birds have been documented reproducing chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, dogs barking and the sound of a gunshot, always woven into their own song sequence.
• It is one of the largest passerines in the world and also one of the longest-lived: it can exceed thirty years.
• In scratching the forest floor for invertebrates it turns over tonnes of leaf litter per hectare per year, to the point that it is considered a genuine factor in reducing fire risk in the forests where it is abundant.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Temperate rainforest and wet eucalypt forest of south-eastern Australia

Sexual maturity

6 years

Gestation / incubation

50 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

1 egg

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.