Big Bird Lyre - a wonderful creation, which is home to New South Wales.The main color of its feathers brownish gray.Nadhvoste has a reddish tinge.Goiter and chin red, the lower part of the body is ash-brown, slightly lighter belly.Flight feathers, small feathers and outer tail feathers brownish red.The tail is below the gray-silver, black-brown on top.Extreme dark gray tail feathers are shaped like a lyre.The tail feathers medium gray, and the rest - black.The length of the body of the male is about 130 centimeters.The female is smaller and its feathers muddy brown.Young males Lyrebird in color similar to females.
bird lira (pictured below) prefers dense bushes in the rocky terrain.He spends most of his life on earth, flying very rare.When activity is rapidly running Lyrebird bird resembles a pheasant.In order not to spoil his beautiful tail, she keeps it in a horizontal position.
most active bird lira shows in the evening and in the morning, but during breeding they can be seen at midday.Males shovel mounds of earth, and then sit on them, lift up the tail and dismiss it beautifully.In addition, the feelings they express the most incredible sounds.Singing Lyrebirds living in different places, different.They copy the voices of many birds, as well as some other sound - the sound of the ax, human laughter, the sound of a saw or alarm.
One of the scientists who have devoted themselves to the study of these creatures, says the bird lira has an incredible gift of imitation.As an example, he cites the following case.In Dzhipslande, near the southern slope of the Alps, Australia, is a sawmill.On holidays or weekends when no one circle, where you can hear a dog barking, the sound of saws, human laughter and singing of different birds.All these sounds are emitted bird lira.The passion to imitate many times increased during the breeding season.
with other animals and feathered Lyrebird behaving cautiously, the person avoids.It feeds the bird lira mostly worms and insects.Most of the northern Lira produces food, digging in the ground.If necessary, when searching for food, it can move the stone up to four kilograms.
According to various observations, during the breeding season in some Lyrebirds begins in August and the other in May.Lyre Bird builds large and elongated slot-like in form egg.It has a roof, its length is 60 cm, width - 30. The slot has a lateral hole for the entrance inside.It goes for the type of housing built carelessly.But in reality it is very strong and sometimes serves as its residents for several years.Lyre Bird hatching 1 every year and puts just one single egg the size of a duck.Its width of about 4 cm and a length of about 6. The female incubates the eggs alone.Male lira does not feed and do not visit her, so midday female Lyrebird forced to leave their future offspring.Returning, she crawls inside, wiping their feathers.That it is possible to know how long the female incubates the egg.The chick leaves the nest after about 8-11 weeks.
People who watched the bird-lyrebird, saying that she was very shy.The slightest rustling, falling branches, make the slightest noise lira to take flight.
