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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 598.07234 EAN: 9780811732956 ISBN: 0811732959 Label: Stackpole Books Manufacturer: Stackpole Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 92 Publication Date: June 05, 2006 Publisher: Stackpole Books Studio: Stackpole Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Learn the arcane yet effective art of pishing from a master. In this unique book and CD package, renowned birder Pete Dunne presents an illustrated workshop on how to attract birds by making precise and well-practiced hisses, whistles, chips, and squeals (along with some kisses and thumps) that almost guarantee spectacular success in the field. The text explains the hows, whys, and whens of 13 different pishes, including the basic pish, stutter pish, whisper pish, knockdown pish, screech-owl warble, sequential chip, and squeal. The soundtrack features audio demonstrations so you can compare your efforts to an experts. Together, this book and CD will send you well on your way to becoming a pisher extraordinaire. This first-ever how-to book on this time-proven technique features 13 pish explanations and audio demonstrations by Pete Dunne Average Rating:
 Rating: - Informative, intelligen and very humorousThe Art of Pishing is an excellent source for learning how to attract birds by mimicking their alert/alarm calls. The humor in the book is a delightful surprise and kept me reading for the next one-liner. At the same time the author clearly explains how to "pish". If that's not enough the CD that comes with the book provides a complete series of lessons on how to make pishing noises. Excellent book! Rating: - The Art of PishingPete Dunne teaches us how to Pish in this Book - I have seen many people pishing, but Pete refines the Art. It is funny, helpful, and historical. It is a useful tool and good reading. In addition, you get a CD you can listen too. It is a funny, pertinent, intelligent discussion of Pishing. Driving during one birding expedition, I played it for my birding group. The Group was thoroughly entertained and we got a lot of good laughs in the process; Pete Dunne is a good entertainer. Rating: - A birder treasure in New JerseyPete Dunne is Editor of "New Jersey Audubon Magazine" and one of the top birders in the country. He writes wonderful short pieces for many publications and is the author of several excellent books on birding. Pishing is easy to learn: purse your lips and make hissing "p" sounds. Dunne includes a useful CD. I used a small digital recorder and compared my sounds with the sounds of a master birder. With an additional bit of help from Shakespeare described below, my own pishing became ... Read More Rating:  - To Pish or not to Pish!I found this book to be interesting, but to execute the sounds that Dunne does is to say the least very difficult. Still over all I liked the book. Rating: - My bird-lover friend loved itI bought this item with the Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide for an extreme bird-watching friend of mine who was recovering from surgery. He reported that in all of his bird book collecting and years of bird study he found new information and great enjoyment from this item. 
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