The Message of the Lyrebird, Melbourne Exclusive

The Message of the Lyrebird, Melbourne Exclusive

For the last 10 years I’ve been privileged to know film-makers Nick Hayward (Platypus Guardians, Quoll Farm) and director Mark Pearce. While we worked on a series of short films about Australia, they were completing a love project about Lyrebirds. Nick filmed the infamous Attenborough scene of the birds mimicking chainsaws. This was voted Attenborough’s #1 moment by the British public. But was it real? Or was the bird simply reproducing a sound of natural origin?

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Published on October 10, 2025 14:18
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