National park
Dandenong Ranges National Park
Temperate forest of towering mountain ash, home to wild superb lyrebirds and elaborate mimicry.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges starts by debunking the viral video of a wild lyrebird mimicking a chainsaw and camera shutter, tracing that footage back to captive birds at a zoo instead. It follows the roughly one hundred sixty superb lyrebirds that actually live in these gullies, each male building his song by stealing sounds from every other bird around him, and the volunteers who have counted them at dawn every year since 1970. Stand still on the track and try to pick out which calls are borrowed.
This audio guide was created using AI.