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The courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape
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lyrebird
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LyreBird (Tales of Helpmann) is a play by Tyler Coppin about the life and career of Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer Sir Robert Helpmann . The one-man play premiered at the 1998 Adelaide Festival of Arts before touring Australia and ...
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n. Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus ''Menura'', named because of the beautiful tail feathers of one species, the superb lyrebird ((taxlink Menura novaehollandiae species noshow=1)) which can be erected to look like ...
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n. Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape
Usage examples of lyrebird.
He probably expected her to perform human-made music only, but Lyrebird was a bird of a different feather altogether.
Actually, today Lyrebird was ravenous and wanted to be able to eat without worrying about delicate dagging and fragile lace.
He kept glancing over at Lyrebird with a certain awe and speculation in his eyes.
I was enjoying the anonymity that kept them from manipulating me, and enjoying my notoriety as Lyrebird too much.
Byzantine, houris-and-candied-figs visions of men in cutaway coats and pasha pants walking around inside the beetle-browed, half-timbered hotel on Stupartska with their upper torsos separated from their lower, summoning leopards and lyrebirds out of the air.
Their ladies had been allowed more latitude and they promenaded along the greensward in total avian extravagance, using the plumes of ostrich, egret, lyrebirds, peacocks and vesprils.
And, landing often, he practiced his archery on lorikeets and lyrebirds and boobies, or stalked the golden cockatoos with his blowgun.