Letters

01 March 1986
Comments Letters 'Pishing' technique. For many years, I have been delighting and often surprising overseas birders visiting North America by enticing numbers of passerines and other landbirds out of dense cover and into view by 'pishing'. Although the technique varies ...
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Notes

01 March 1986
Comments Notes Little Stints feeding by hovering. The note on Little Stints Calidris minuta feeding in flight in Saudi Arabia (Brit. Birds 11: 156) prompts me to record similar behaviour by this species in Bahrain. My observations were made in fine weather with ...
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