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| The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls (Book & Audio CD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Pete Dunne
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $11.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 49304
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 92
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0811732959
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.07234
EAN: 9780811732956
ASIN: 0811732959
Publication Date: June 5, 2006
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The Manual for attracting birds while field birding October 1, 2007
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
First of all "pishing" is making sounds to attract birds or wildlife. The sound has been likened to a distress call or a call note that birds use when identifying a threat. This has the effect of getting many birds of the area to collect around the source of the sound to the benefit of the person trying to spot and identify them.
I've been birding for 36 years and have been "pishing" for birds almost as long thanks to my mentor and one of Michigan's best birders, Doug McWhirter. Doug taught me how to pish and how to do the screech owl imitation just as Pete Dunne describes it in this book. Since I've done this for so many years I wanted to see if there were any new tricks in the book.
This is a short book, more like a manual with its' CD (90 pages in a small (6"x*8") size. It is readable and entertaining as anyone familiar with Pete Dunne's writing would know. He throws in lots of humorous examples in with the instructions. The book covers the advent of pishing in birding, the several types of pishing, when to employ the pish and when it will not be productive as well as ethical guidlines to pishing.
I was interested to learn the "knock down pish" something new to me. Despite excellent instructions I found that I am still not able to do Dunnes squeal and need more practice. I also found verification that grassland birds are hard to pish but may respond more to squeals and chip notes. The CD is very brief but has good examples of the sounds, pitches, and duration that are difficult to explain in type.
All in all a good little manual to help advance your birding skills
Wonderful guide! August 3, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've read in several field guides that cetain birds are "pishable", and quite frankly I never quite knew what that meant.
I got this book and CD just before going on vacation to PA. I knew I'd have the chance to see lots of new birds and several of those were considered pishable.
On my first day out birding in the Pocono's I tried the basic pish. And Wham! a Tufted Titmouse showed up. I kept pishing and a Black Capped Chickadee arrived. The Chickadee was so interested he flew out and nearly landed on my head. My kids were with me and they were quite impressed (they had been skeptical when we headed out). It was very satisfing to have my kids say "Mom, see if you can pish him out."
Not only did the birds respond to pishing but squirrels seem quite intrigued by it also.
This is a great find. I highly recommend it.
All it needs to be. June 11, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book and CD provides all the needed information in a user friendly manner. One will definitely be an informed and able pisher after one or two reads/listens. The ethics of pishing are also covered, something the birds will appreciate. Finally, it is great fun! It is always good to hear Pete Dunne's voice (I have taken birding walks with him in Cape May). The book definitely improved my birding skills.
It gets results! February 10, 2007
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I received this book and went out birding the next day and tried pishing and it worked! The CD is excellent and the book is entertaining as well as informative. It takes practice to learn to do it well but it does get the birds' attention.
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