Menura the Lyrebird

The two ‘stars’ of this book and the accompanying record are ‘Wanderer’, a male Superb Lyrebird of Sherbrooke Forest in Victoria, and Theresa, who was recorded and photographed near Sydney.

Recorded also are the calls of the Albert Lyrebird from southern Queensland. Mr Pollock is one of Australia’s leading nature photographers… Here he tells us in entrancing detail the story of Theresa’s raising of her chick and of his association with Wanderer. He describes the life history of the Lyrebird and gives an account of its outstanding powers of mimicry. As proof of this, inside the front cover is provided an EP record…