This technique works well in Southern Africa, as it imitates the
scolding or alarm call of the ubiquitous cisticolas, in particular the Rattling
Cisticola. There must be some Australian birds that have such an alarm
call? Or maybe it’s a ghost of evolution past from an ancestral passerine.
Jim
From: martin butterfield
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Sent: Saturday, 2 May 2009 8:41 AM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Pishing
Following my post yeasterday I was asked for a little more
information about the technique of 'squeaking'. Through a convoluted
thought process this led me to Google "Pishing" which gave a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pish
I was intrigued to see the comment that this technique doesn't work where there
are no tits or chickadees. As far as I can tell there are no tits or
chickadees (in fact no members of the Paridae) in Australia but many
people seem to find pishing effective.
Please explain?
Martin
