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This page lists books that are totally or partially about Lyrebirds. The books are listed in order of publication date with the most recent at the top.

Lyrebird

There are 2 species of lyrebirds both of which are found only in Australia.

Superb Lyrebird
Menura novaehollandiae

Albert's Lyrebird
Menura alberti

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

2004

850 pages, 78 colour plates, colour photos, distribution maps.

This volume covers cotingas, manakins, tyrant-flycatchers, New Zealand wrens, scrub-birds, lyrebirds, larks, swallows, pipits and wagtails.

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand, and Antarctic Birds: Volume 5: Tyrant-flycatchers to Chats

Editor: P. J. Higgins, J.M. Peter, W.K. Steele

Oxford University Press

2001

"HANZAB is one of the world's major ornithological projects. The first four volumes have attracted several awards, critical praise and an international market. Volume 5 covers 118 species: kingbirds and tyrant-flycatchers; New Zealand wrens; pittas; lyrebirds; scrub-birds; Australian tree-creepers; Australasian wrens (fairy-wrens, grasswrens, and emu-wrens); honeyeaters and chats."

The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001

Libby Robin

2001

"The Flight of the Emu tells the story of Australian birding in the twentieth century. The Emu is the journal of the former Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, now known as Birds Australia. In this engrossing book, Libby Robin describes the achievements and the increasing importance of ornithology in Australia–both amateur and professional–over the past hundred years. From Bass Strait to the Kimberley, collectors have searched for and identified hundreds of species of Australian birds. This is a discipline in which exceptional amateur contributions have helped to shape science. Libby Robin explores the tensions between amateur and professional ornithologists, and discusses issues of conservation and environmental management, scientific collecting, smuggling and bird protection. She tells stories from campouts, expeditions and congresses derived from oral history, letters and ‘reading between the lines' of published reports. The search for the Night Parrot, the protection of the Lyrebird, the identification of the Noisy Scrub-bird, have all involved enthusiastic bird lovers as well as scientists. Ornithological research takes place in museums, universities, government agencies, community groups and the CSIRO. Bird-banding has introduced many people to the passion of ornithology, as well as providing a method of valuable data-collection about birds. The Flight of the Emu also details international scientific expeditions and the influences of Australian birds on international debates."

Cuckoos, Nightbirds and Kingfishers of Australia

Editor: Ronald Strahan

The National Photographic index of Australian Wildlife

Angus & Robertson

1994

"This volume includes some non-passerine families: cuckoos, owls, frogmouths, nightjars, owlet nightjars, swifts, kingfishers, and bee-eaters; and some passerine families: pittas, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows, pipits, wagtails, cuckooshrikes, trillers and bulbuls. Full descriptions are accompanied by colour photographs and distribution maps."

The Lyrebird: A Natural History

Pauline Reilly

1988

The Life Of The Lyrebird

L.H. Smith

1988

Lyrebirds Calling From Australia

R.T. Littlejohns

Robertson & Mullens

1947

From the foreword:

The lyrebird really lives and moves in this small book by my friend, Ray Littlejohns, who for so many years has been a faithful attendant upon Menura. He has written a perfect bird biography; and I know of no other, of any bird, that is more interesting than this life story of a world-famous Australian native. It is based upon unrivalled knowledge, gained during many excursions to Sherbrooke in the lyrebird season, every year over a long period.

The Lyre-Bird. Australia's wonder-songster

R.T. Littlejohns

1938

The Magic Voice A Story of the Australian Lyre Bird

R.T. Littlejohns

Ramsay Publishing

1933

Catalogue Of The Passeriformes or Perching Birds In The Collection Of The British Museum

Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum, Volume XIII

R. Bowdler Sharp

Printed By Order Of The Trustees

Sold by: Longman & Co.; B. Quaritch; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; and at the British Museum (Natural History)

1890

From the introduction:

"With the present volume the description of the Acromyodian Passeres is completed. It will be seen that, owing to the large accessions to the collection, the series examined exceeds that of any of the preceding volumes. Out of the 601 species and subspecies here recognized, only 58 are unrepresented in the collection, or about 10 per cent. Of these at least 25 are of very doubtful value, so that the collection actually contains nearly 95 per cent, of the known species. The British Museum possesses the types of 152 species, besides those of 61 no longer considered to be of that rank. The number of specimens reaches the total of 11,699. By the acquisition of part of the Shelley Collection of African birds by the Trustees of the Museum, my labours on the Ploceidae have been much facilitated, as I have had before me the whole of Capt. Shelley's series of specimens, on which was based his monographic essay on the African Weaver-Birds. Mr. Seebohm has likewise presented his entire collection of Palaearctic Alaudidae, and the Sturnidae and Ploceidae of the Swinhoe collection, comprising many types of species."