As I understand squeaking is where you suck air in through lips in a
kiss shape, and pishing is forcing air out whilst moving the lips
rapidly to make the syllables 'psh-psh-psh...'
I find that either of these can work in Australia, squeaking seems to
work better for Fairywrens and White-browed Schrubwren and pishing for
Thornbills (particularly Weebills and Brown Thornbills).
But the effects are variable and sometimes you can gather quite a
crowd of birds, other times they seem uninterested.
John Leonard
2009/5/2 Jim Longworth <>:
> 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
> 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
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