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Article: The nation's favourite Attenborough moment.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2006
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Byline: JAMES TAPPER
AN OBSCURE clip of a bird mimicking a chainsaw has been voted the nation's favourite Sir David Attenborough moment.
Remarkably, the talented lyrebird proved more popular than the veteran broadcaster's legendary brush with a group of mountain gorillas.
Sir David, who celebrates his 80th birthday tomorrow, came across the Superb Lyrebird, which gets its name from its colourful tailfeathers that fan out into the shape of a lyre, while he was in Australia filming the 1998 series The Life Of Birds.
The bird proceeded to perform an accurate imitation of a chainsaw, then gave a perfect rendition of the photographer's ...