The story
From lyre + bird, so named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lyrebird
Today it means: Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. Full definition →