Both belong to the ancient Menuridae family, which split from other songbirds around 30 million years ago, making lyrebirds some of the oldest songbirds on Earth. The superb lyrebird inhabits dense ...

Such families include the hummingbirds (Trochilidae); trogons (Trogonidae); scrub-birds (Menuridae); and logrunners (Orthonychidae). Inevitably, a small number of families are prone to both sources of ...

Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae): an Australian songbird. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Aves Order: | Passeriformes Family: | Menuridae Genus: | Menura Species: | M ...

The property also contains an outstanding number of songbird species, including lyrebirds (Menuridae), scrub-birds (Atrichornithidae), treecreepers (Climacteridae) and bowerbirds and catbirds ...

The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 (extended in 1994).The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia was one of 15 World Heritage places included in the ...

This search allows you to look for information on all birds and bats for which the ABBBS database contains banding and recovery data. You can find information on a particular species or sets of ...

Osteological comparison of the Scrub-birds, Atrichornis, and Lyrebirds, Menura (Passeriformes: Atrichornithidae and Menuridae) by P. V. Rich; Allan R. Mcevey; Robert F. Baird Publication date 1985 ...