John currently serves as Director of the Jazz Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University, and he has served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University and Guilford College (Greensboro, NC).
The other subspecies of eclectus parrot that is found in Australia is E. r. polychloros. This subspecies is only known from the Torres Strait islands. All other subspecies of this parrot are located in Indonesia, New Guinea, and several Pacific islands. Life history and behaviour. The eclectus parrots usually perch and feed high in the canopy.
Lyrebirds are found along the coast of Australia. They also life in Tasmania, and love dampened forests or wetlands, which are hard to traverse. They are superb at imitating other birds and in many cases can fool even the most experienced bird watcher with the many bird cries they can imitate, so that they think they are hearing an entirely different bird.