This is Bird Noir.

Imagine you were a bird with a unique bird song.

You might be surprised to hear your signature song repeated back to you with near perfect

accuracy, but not from your same species.

The source of the echo is the bird song Camelion, known as the superb Liar Bird.

Founding Australian forests, male superb Liar Birds can mimic Colt well enough to convince

the bird they're imitating that the Liar Bird is one of their own.

Here's his impression of a yellow-tailed black cockatoo.

First, you'll hear the Liar Bird and then the bird that he's mimicking.

Apai Kara Vong

Akuka Bura

And even an Eastern Web Bird.

The superb Liar Bird is one of nature's greatest mimics, a living and breeding dictophone.

While males sing to attract mates, females imitate the calls of predators, which could

help frighten other birds of their territories.

Liar Birds, in zoos, even pick up mechanical noises like car alarms, chainsaws and construction

sounds.

The BBC recorded one Liar Bird imitating a camera shutter.

That was a camera shutter.

What a trickster.

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I'm Camelogasón.

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