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This is the classic concert song and dance position for an adult male Superb lyrebird. The amazing tail, with long stems, shaped like the ancient musical instrument, the lyre, with webbed frills are lifted over its head and thrown as forward as possible.
He will then start singing - they will expertly mimic any other bird species, and more amazingly, any mechanical sounds too! This Includes car alarms, camera motor drives, chainsaws.

The song and dance can continue for ages - it is most impressive!

Normally lyrebirds are extremely shy and are hard to spot in the wild - you would normally hear a male then see it.
The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is a pheasant-sized songbird, approximately 100cm long, with brown upper body plumage, grayish-brown below, rounded wings and strong legs. It is the longest and third heaviest of all songbirds.
The polygamous male is the bearer of the most elegant of all tails. The tail has sixteen feathers, with the two outermost being lyre-shaped. Next within are two guard plumes and twelve long, lace-like feathers, known as filamentaries. Seven years is required for the tail to fully develop. After the winter mating season, the tail will fall off, and the male will grow a new tail, ready for next winter. Each year it grows bigger.
An Australian endemic, the Superb Lyrebird is distributed in the forest of southeastern Australia, from southern Victoria to southeastern Queensland. The diet consists mainly of small animals found on forest floor or from rotting logs.
Male lyrebirds call mostly during winter, when they construct and maintain an open arena-mound in dense bush, on which they sing and dance in courtship, to display to potential mates, of which the male lyrebird has several. Females build an untidy nest usually low to the ground in a moist gully where she lays a single egg, and she is the sole parent who incubates the egg over 50 days until it hatches, and she is also the sole carer of the lyrebird chick.
Lyrebirds feed on insects, spiders, earthworms and, occasionally, seeds. They find food by scratching with their feet through the leaf-litter. When in danger, lyrebirds run, rather than fly, being awkward in flight, and have also been seen to take refuge in wombat burrows.

Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

The 50 metre tall National Carillon tower was a gift from the British government
to the people of Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Capital, Canberra.

The Carillon is, if you did not know, a musical instrument! It contains 55 bells, which chime every
quarter hour and play a short tune on the hour along with tours and recitals on many days.

It is well lit at nighttime, and casts a striking figure over the water of Lake Burley Griffin.