10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAP-NET»
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1
Bird Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques
Clap-nets and whoosh-nets, in contrast, are always set furled horizontally on the
ground, and whereas the mist-net is a passive capture method (the net is static),
the clap-net or whoosh net is thrown rapidly over the birds by powerful elastic ...
William J. Sutherland, Ian Newton, Rhys Green, 2004
2
Proceedings of the Congress of the International Union of ...
TRAPPING METHOD Setting-up a double clap net and catching doves with it is a
time-consuming process. Usually it begins at early morning hours and ends
before mid-day. The catcher selects a location along a regular field, usually
stubble ...
International Union of Game Biologists. Congress, Nikola Botev, 1996
3
Trapping: A Practical Guide
While these small net traps work on the clap-net principle, the name clap-net is
usually reserved for the large manually operated types. These are the traps often
used by ringers (banders) for taking small wading birds when they are in flocks, ...
4
Animal Traps and Trapping
The Clap-Net Traps One of the earliest multi-catch bird traps known to have been
used was the clap-net trap. This was described inadequately by Mottram in the
early seventeenth century and more carefully by Willughby later in the same ...
articles which will be required, and chief among them is the clap-net (or bat-
fowling net, as it is sometimes called). It is praised as the very mainstay of the
entomologist, and the writers e tiate on its large surface and the space covers
with its ...
6
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping: ...
THE CLAP NET. In Asia, Africa, South America and Europe, this trap is a common
resource for the capture of wild birds of various kinds. It may be called a " decoy "
trap, from the fact that " call birds " are generally used in connection with it.
7
Beiträge zur assyriologie und semitischen sprachwissenschaft
49, 16) with the throw-stick or taken in a clap-net (see the illustrations in Eeman's
Agypten, pp. 322. 325; cf. RB 54; 5 EBU 9, 45 a). The Hebrew name for the throw-
stick is moqis", and the clap-net is called pah (so, correctly, Marti and Duhm in ...
Friedrich Delitzsch, Paul Haupt, 1913
8
Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A ...
Clan. Clap-net. 1497. Wood-rafts for the supply of Paris with firewood are made
up here, and floated down the Yonne and Seine. Pop. 5313. a Clam. Anatomy of
a Bivalve Mollusc, Mya armaria (after Woodward). The left valve and mautlc- lobe
...
Thomas Edward Finegan, 1922
9
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors
During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the clap-net had become
increasing popular and few of the principal collectors of the time used anything
else. Laetitia Jermyn was an exception. In the second edition of her Butterfly ...
Michael A. Salmon, Peter Marren, Basil Harley, 2000
10
A History of Fowling: Being an Account of the Many Curious ...
Being an Account of the Many Curious Devices by which Wild Birds are Or Have
Been Captured in Different Parts of the World Hugh Alexander Macpherson.
inducing them to alight within reach of the horizontal and easily reversed Clap-
net.
Hugh Alexander Macpherson, 1897
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAP-NET»
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Gozo trapping sites can be registered at Xewkija Paying Agency Office
Applicants are only allowed to mark and register up to four clap-net areas (mnasab) per person, either: (a) four clap-nets within a single ... «Gozo News, Jul 14»
