Juvenile male Superb Lyrebird
A spotting and shot through a window and from a great distance - please advise if not enough detail! Also, I believe this is the correct ID based on details I could see and behaviour I observed.
Looking rather like a large pheasant, a ground-dwelling species, but roosting in trees at night. I watched this specimen foraging for food, scratching at the ground with its large feet.
I estimate this one to be around 70 to 80 cm in length.
The Superb Lyrebird is a pheasant-sized songbird, measuring approximately 100 cm long and weighing around 1 kg, with brown upper body plumage, grayish-brown below, rounded wings and strong legs. Among all extant songbirds only the Common and Thick-billed Ravens regularly outweigh it and only the much more slender Black Sicklebill can rival its length.
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