Elusive and usually solitary, the male Superb Lyrebird has an elaborate courtship display and promiscuous mating system. He attracts potential mates by dancing on a display mound singing his song repertoire for up to 20 minutes, while throwing his ornate quivering tail forward over his body, creating a shimmering silvery white canopy of 'lyrate' plumes. Females secure their own territory, build their bulky dome-shaped stick nest on a rock ledge or in a hollow stump, and may visit several performing males before mating. 

Scratches in leaf litter for worms, spiders and insects. Resounding loud, clear song, rattling, metallic whirring, thudding whistle and expert mimicry including farm and forest sounds. Their song can include up to 20 other bird species, camera shutters, chainsaws etc. Unusual in most species, lyrebirds breed in the middle of winter, the male bird beginning the day singing from half an hour before sunrise from a high roosting perch. They sing less at other times of the year but can often be heard on a foggy cold morning. Females also sing but are less resounding.

Found in dark, damp tree fern-lined gullies in wet eucalypt forests.