Menura alberti
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Albert's lyrebird (Menura alberti), sometimes known as the northern lyrebird, is a timid, pheasant-sized songbird which is endemic to subtropical rainforests of Australia, in a small area on the state border between New South Wales and Queensland. The rarer of the two species of lyrebirds, Albert's lyrebird is named after Prince Albert, the prince consort of Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom. It lacks the elegant lyre-shaped tail feathers of the superb lyrebird and is found in a much more restricted range.
The total population of Albert's lyrebirds was estimated at only 3,500 breeding birds in 2000, with one of the smallest distributional ranges of any bird on the continent. Due to its remote habitat, Menura alberti had not been discovered when famous English ornithologist John Gould first published his Birds of Australia in 1848, although he named it (after Prince Albert) and added it in a supplement in 1850. Under taxonomic convention, he would normally have been assigned the credit for describing the species and assigning its scientific name. However, the credit as scientific describer instead went to French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Albert's Lyrebird sighting in Springbrook National Park on a given day, based on 572 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 59th most-seen of the 136 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Albert's Lyrebird in Springbrook National Park on a given day, against under 5% in December, the lowest month.
Between 5 and 8 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Albert's Lyrebird sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 2
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Albert's Lyrebird sightings, Springbrook National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Lamington National Park (Australia, about 40%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Albert's Lyrebird that you can see in Springbrook National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Lewin's Honeyeater (about 80%), Eastern Whipbird (about 80%) and Pied Currawong (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Albert's Lyrebird is recorded against all the birds logged in Springbrook National Park (572 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
