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The melodious sounds of trills and tweets, whistles and warbles, are a harbinger of spring.

But do you ever wonder what birds are actually talking about? Maybe they're

catching up after a winter away. Or maybe they're saying, step off, this twig is my territory.

Or maybe they're signaling that there's a predator about, even when there isn't. Well, if a bird-crying

wolf sounds silly, a new study shows that in Australia,

certain male songbirds use this trick to get females they wish to woo to stick around a little

longer. The results appear in the journal Current Biology. The superb lyre bird, that's spelled

L-Y-R-E, is famous for its ability to imitate the calls it hears in its local environment.

From the fluid melody of a shrike thrush, to the distinctive laugh of a cuckaburra.

The males weave these oral entertainments into songs they sing to attract mates.

What liebirds are most well known for in Australia, what we call their recital song,

their amazing, lyrical, loud song that they sing from the tops of the trees before dawn throughout the day and even into dusk during the breeding season.

And this recital song, also most of it is mimicry,

and the male just reels through imitations of lots of species

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