The masters of imitation appear to have vocal talents more profound than previously appreciated. NationalBirdDay
When Dalziell and her colleagues analyzed the acoustic signatures of the lyrebirds’ strange songs and compared them to those of actual mobbing flocks, the similarities were striking. It was an accurate enough impression to fool other birds too. When the team played back the lyrebird’s fake flock noises in the wild, songbirds were attracted to the speakers to a similar degree as when the speakers played audio from a real mobbing flock.
While the lyrebirds could be mimicking a mobbing flock, they might not be doing so to mimic the mobbing intention itself, says Dominique Potvin, an ecologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, also not involved with this research. Replicating mobbing calls, she says, could just be a difficult vocal feat meant to impress a mate.
At the close of trying to impress a female with an elaborate song and dance, the male lyrebird adds a remarkable flourish. Its voice recreates the alarmed chirps and wingbeats of many birds of different species, a degree of mimicry prowess never seen before in birds.
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