A photograph of a flock of lyrebirds converging on waterhole as a bushfire approaches reveals something remarkable.
"[The dam] was like a safe haven, so when the fire came through with the heat and the smoke, it actually never climbed the lip of the dam.
"So it was almost like they were protected in this little crater and I think that they knew that, they knew that that was the safest place to be because surely there aren't that many lyrebirds just in that area.Alex Maisey, a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, has spent almost two decades watching lyrebirds and said he had only ever seen six or seven lyrebirds together at one time.
"It's really incredible, because it's a rare thing to see a bird that's generally solitary and territorial coming together like this," he said. "I don't believe that's ever been recorded on camera, so in that way it's a really unique photograph.Ms Wallis said she saw at least six lyrebirds at the dam after the fire front passed through, but was too busy to get an accurate count of survivors.
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