Hi
This morning my daughter and I looked out the lounge room window and were surprised to see what looked like a pair of Albert lyre-birds. I know that they are only suppose to be found in NSW and QLD border regions. We live on the costal edge of the NSW mountain ranges 2 hrs south of Sydney with rainforest areas around us, we have a lot of Suberp Lyre birds, is it possible that they were Albert Lyre birds???
They had a richer brown colour with a redish patch on the throat under the head and their tales were more of plain fan than a lyre.
Matt
your description does sound like an Albert's but it would be about 10 hours (by car) out of area
I would consider other factors - cloud cover, the shade of trees, etc etc
Peter
Thanks Peter
I did think it was to far south however they were directly under the window about 2 metres down in the filtered morning sun scratching in the garden under a small tree, after a few minutes when my daughter returned with camera they got startled and ran off back into the forest.
Matt
Superb Lyrebirds for sure. No Alberts exist that far south. If they do it would be a real rare instance. There could be some slight variation in plumage I suspect, which is locality dependent.