The mimics among us — birds pirate songs for personal profit

A lyrebird can mimic dozens of different sounds. • The superb lyrebird is known to copy around 20–25 different bird species along with other noises from its environment. • Some recordings show lyrebirds imitating over 30–40 distinct sounds in a single performance. • These sounds can include natural ones (birds, koalas, dingoes) and artificial ones (chainsaws, car alarms, camera clicks, even human voices).So there’s no exact fixed number, but on average, they can carry a “repertoire” of dozens of

Sydney zookeeper captures lyrebird replicating the sound of a crying baby