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Daily Discussion Thread: 🐤🕊️🦜 Sunday, 5 January, 2025
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Bird day: for most of my holiday I stayed in a hut that a lyrebird lived right outside of. Every morning I'd get the multipack of birdsong waking me up. I'd tarry a while just to hear his full repertoire. It was beautiful.
I saw couples of lyrebirds casually strolling around the property and hopping off garden walls. Didn't have my phone on me for the most part so didn't take any photos.
I have to admit, lyrebirds are not spectacular to look at, unless male and dancing on their mound.
They're on the upper side of mid. Not much colour ordinarily, but lovely tails and a fairly sizeable and mobile bird. One of the larger birds in forested inland areas aside from emus...