Examples of lyrebird in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For example, the start of winter in her local area in northern New South Wales is indicated by male lyrebirds singing. — Aarti Betigeri, Time, "How Australia's Indigenous Experts Could Help Deal With Devastating Wildfires," 14 Jan. 2020 The team noticed that species with particularly ancient lineages, such as lyrebirds, scrub-birds and New Zealand wrens, still build roofed structures—suggesting that ancestral passerine nests were domed. — Kat Long, Scientific American, "Bird Nests Used to Look More Like Fortresses," 1 May 2017 Briefly, another fascinating surprise was the propensity of ravens to mimic human sounds, much like parrots or lyrebirds do. — James Floyd Kelly, WIRED, "Book Review and Author Interview: Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez," 12 July 2012

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