In the dense forests of Australia lives one of the most extraordinary sound imitators in the animal kingdom, a bird capable ...

Find your headphones. Mixed Signals offers at day's end an audio benediction. In Britain, Sir David Attenborough, known as the "father of natural history programming" was honored by UKTV on the ...

Am I not pretty enough? This article is part of The Conversation’s series introducing you to Australia’s unloved animals that need our help. Mention the superb lyrebird, and you’ll probably hear ...

A man in Australia recently had a rare encounter with one of the country's most fascinating creatures: the lyrebird.

Robert Krulwich has a post up about the superb lyrebird (real name!), which is COMPLETELY RIDIC. What's so superb? How about the ability to mimic any noise it hears with astonishing faithfulness, that ...

Emily Cullen says she couldn't believe it when her son told her about the poem, which she had written seven years earlier.

The pheasant-sized superb lyrebird doesn't look like much until you get to its tail. There are 16 feathers, the two outermost being erect and creating a gorgeous pinnacle of lacy white and brown ...

The lyrebird is an Australian species best known for its ability to mimic man-made sounds. National Geographic has recorded these remarkable birds mimicking such unnatural noises as a chainsaw and a ...

A viral video making the rounds shows a lyrebird mimicking a laser gun with incredible accuracy. So how is this possible? The video demonstrates the prevalence of mimicry in nature, where looks — and, ...

Recent research reveals that female superb lyrebirds possess complex, context-dependent songs, challenging the notion of their vocal insignificance. These vocalisations serve essential survival ...