Lyrebird yang Pintar Ngibulin

Link to Facts on Lyrebird:  http://www.australianfauna.com/lyrebird.php 

Lyre Lyre the Biggest Liar!!!! Ha, ha aku ingat dulu waktu belum lama  tiba di Australia. Kami pergi ke Healesville Sanctuary yang merupakan wildlife park khususnya untuk binatang asli di Australia. Waktu itu anak tetangga  yang orang Kamboja ikut pergi bersama kami.  Waktu kami mulai berjalan jalan sambil melihat kangguru, koala dan wombat, suamiku bilang kami harus melihat Lyrebird. Lyre itu ucapannya sama dengan kata liar (bahasa Inggris) yang artinya penipu. Langsung sianak Kamboja yang  berumur tujuh tahun itu tertawa geli. Sepanjang jalan dia tertawa mengikik dan akhirnya dia bilang lyrebird itu pasti suka menipu. Masa burung bisa menipu, katanya. Memang kenyataannya begitu! Lyrebird itu  begitu pandai ngibulin orang.

Bukan saja burung beo yang bisa membeo, tapi lyrebird jantan lebih pandai lagi. Bisa menirukan semua suara burung burung lain dengan jitu. Selain itu juga bisa menirukan suara buatan manusia misalnya bunyi gergaji , chainsaw dan suara alat alat bangunan lainnya, suara click-nya kamera, suara dari radio yang termasuk lagu dan nyanyian

Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) adalah burung asli Australia yang banyak ditemukan dihutan hutan di Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland Tenggara dan Tasmania. Selain kepandaiannya menirukan suara, lyrebird jantan terkenal dengan keindahan ekornya dan tariannya. Untuk menarik perhatian burung betina yang amat polos penampilannya, burung jantan membuat onggokan-onggokan tanah yang tingginya bisa mencapai hampir satu meter. Disaat lyrebird jantan ini sedang mabuk kepayang, ia akan naik diatas onggokan tanah bagaikan seorang penyanyi berdiri diatas panggung. Kemudian ia akan membuka ekor yang akan melengkung kedepan nyaris menudungi kepala. Setelah itu, dalam usaha untuk mengambil perhatian sang betina, mulailah ia menyanyi.

Nyanyian lyrebird merupakan symphony yang dirancang tidak saja dengan menggunakan nyanyian ciptaan sendiri tapi juga sebagaian besar merupakan tiruan dari suara suara burung lain dan juga suara lainnya yang pernah didengar termasuk suara yang berasal dari manusia. Begitu persisnya burung ini menirukan suara burung burung lain, sehingga begitu sering pencinta burung yang ingin  melihat dan mendengar burung burung dihutan terkecoh.

Tak bisa dipungkiri, lyrebird adalah salah satu burung yang terindah dan paling unik. Kepintaraannya dalam menirukan suara betul betul mengagumkan. Begitu indahnya ciptaan Tuhan itu!!

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Strange Dancing Lights

The other day, I found some digital pictures that my son took on December 23, 2005. That night around 11.00PM (Melbourne time, Australia), I went outside to admire the Christmas lights decorations at the front part of our house. They were so bright and colourful. It was a cloudy night without any stars to be seen. Then suddenly when I was gazing towards the north eastern sky I noticed something very strange. There were these small milky white lights moving around in such way that they seemed to dance around. Sometimes it looked like they chased one another. Other time they seemed to spread out and then back closer together again. Then suddenly they seemed to move erratically and then they repeated the previous movements again……

I had never seen anything like this, so I called my husband and son to come out of the house to see this strange display. Then my son decided to capture them with his digital camera. He said that more than likely that nothing would come up because he couldn’t see anything through the camera lenses. This strange phenomenon last about 2 hours before they were reduced in numbers faded and disappeared completely.

Almost immediately, our son uploaded the images from his camera into his computer and to our surprise we saw very strange images.

He captured two different kinds of images. One is the milky white lights like the ones that we saw through naked eyes, and another different one that we didn’t actually see at all.

Images that we did not see, but captured by the digital camera

What are they?

• After we researched many different sources at the internet, there were few different theories to explain the images.Rain or water particles in the sky:  Remember that night was cloudy, so it did make sense if the air was full of water particles. They say that a good digital camera sometimes can capture these water particles and the results are as above. The ones that look like glowing discs are water particles that stand still while the white one with the tail is the one that start to fall down.
• Orbs:  Orbs are believed (by many) to be ghosts in the form of balls of light. They are life forms that travel in groups and are believed to be the human soul or life force of those that once inhabited a physical body here on earth (www.goststudy.com)
• UFO: Other people still believe that these images are unidentified flying objects or in this case is rather of dancing objects

How to explain what we saw? The most probable scientific explanation about the dancing lights is that there were electrical storm activities far away above the cloud that night.

But if you saw yourself that night you would wonder if electrical storms could actually made such beautiful movements…. The way the lights moved was more like a choreographed dancing. Other thing to wonder was that the movement of those lights was only limited to certain spot of the sky which is about 45 to 50  degrees up the Northeastern sky.

 Close up disc-like image                     

  This image that we actually saw

Note: This sighting was from Melbourne, Australia.