hey i just noticed that you've shared a lot of our "waverly films" videos here on the site, like Amazing Lyrebird Unseen Footage, and it's given us a lot of great exposure.

just wanted to say thanks.

You can see the original unadulterated footage in this sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Lyrebird-Unbelievable-Jungle-Bird-Mimics-Bird-and-Human-Sounds

It's worth checking out, he does some amazing imitations not shown in this clip.

Indeed. I feel like such a noob now. They mixed video over the audio track there masterfully, and one is actually more prone to notice the editing by turning sound off. Only then did I see the reverse action, etc. Weird they wouldn't have had more job done on the actual bird though.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^EDD:
While editing wasn't anywhere near perfect, one's gotta love Sir David Attenborough in on it. Didn't expect that - nice one!

He's not in on it EDD. That's where the editing comes in.

>> ^EDD:
While editing wasn't anywhere near perfect, one's gotta love Sir David Attenborough in on it. Didn't expect that - nice one!


He's not in on it EDD. That's where the editing comes in.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Lyrebird, Australia, bird, birdsong, seinfeld, waverlyfilms' to 'Lyrebird, Australia, bird, birdsong, seinfeld, waverlyfilms, fake' - edited by jwray

>> ^RedSky:
The way its head extends for the 'camera with a motor drive' sound just made me completely lose it

and that bit was REAL! Yep, if you look up the original piece, that really is the lyrebird doing that sound.

haha...i was looking at the tags wondering how seinfeld was going to be related to the australian lyrebird

upvote for anything that gives the Lyrebird more cred.
BUT

A) It's not a Central Australian bird, it's found around the coasts, we have them here down in ol' southern victoria (south east tip of mainland Australia).
b) The other video which has the actual David Attenborough version labels it as a jungle bird. We don't have jungles in Australia, it's a bush bird thankyou very much.

Humph.

Reminds me of http://www.videosift.com/video/Lyrebird-Unbelievable-Jungle-Bird-Mimics-Bird-and-Human-Sounds ...

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Lyrebird-Unbelievable-Jungle-Bird-Mimics-Bird-and-Human-Sounds

Tags for this video have been changed from 'lyrebird, jungle bird, mimics sounds' to 'lyrebird, jungle bird, mimics sounds, David Attenborough' - edited by Fedquip

thanks. i've enjoyed the quality videos and mostly the unique and intelligent community.

i first came here after seeing Silent Library (oddly removed.. bad siftbot!) http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2614 and the Lyrebird video.