The impact that wiped out the dinosaurs also wiped out all songbirds, except for in (ark) Australia. Australian songbirds then spread out to rest of the planet.
The closest living descendents (aka basal lineages) are the Lyrebird and the Rufus scrub bird. The lyrebird’s song is a mixture of its own song and other birds songs. They have been also been known to mimic chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, and human speech.
Every morning they’re screaming “g’day, mate!”
More like “Wanna root?”
They’re screaming something! Torresian Crows, Pied Currawongs, Noisy Miners, every morning they’re around my yard yelling at the top of their little lungs!
I’ve got a gaggle of kookaburras in the neighborhood too. Only a few lorikeets and an occasional cockatoo.