Aves · Passeriformes
Superb Lyrebird
Menura novaehollandiae
Unrivaled vocal mimic capable of reproducing the calls of dozens of other bird species plus mechanical sounds like chainsaws and camera shutters, performed atop a mound of raked earth it builds and defends on the forest floor.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1494 licence-filtered records across 32 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (5)
- DPIE Data from Scientific Licences dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)