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Attenborough: the amazing Lyre Bird sings like a chainsaw! Now in high quality | BBC Earth

BBC Earth · 18.5M views · 2009-05-18 · 2:58

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Overview

A short BBC Earth clip from David Attenborough's Life of Birds showing a lyrebird imitating sounds, including a chainsaw and camera shutter, so accurately it is hard to tell from the real thing.

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Shared whenever birds mimic sounds come up, as a mind-blowing example of vocal mimicry.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2025

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MrMcCall · 2025-03 · Strong recommendation

Here's the one that blows my mind: [VIDEO] It's from one of (our honorary Uncle) David Attenborough's nature series, where a Lyre bird is imitating an analog professional camera, a car alarm, and a chainsaw. If I hadn't watched it well over a decade ago, I don't think I'd believe it. Search YT for 'lyre bird imitating chainsaw' for a choice of vids.

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Naracion · 2020-09 · Strong recommendation

You might enjoy the superb lyre bird imitating sounds as mind boggling as a chainsaw--and when I say imitate, I mean I couldn't have distinguished the lyre bird sound from a real chainsaw. It's really mind-boggling to me. [VIDEO]

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defrost · 2023-12 · Joke / meme

The obvious and very Australian bird question is, of course, how can we search for: * A camera shutter, * A camera with a motorised drive, * A car alarm, * A chainsaw, ... etc ? [VIDEO]

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