If put head to head on a singing contest, the common Hill Myna would have been shamed by this bird's capabilities.
The reason is that the males of this bird, commonly known as the Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) attracts the opposite sex by composing its own complex song from the sounds around it.
Native to the rainforests of East Australia, this bird is not only an expert of convincingly imitating the sounds of other birds, but also other more unfamiliar sounds like chainsaws car alarm, human voices, hammers, power drills and camera shutters.
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