Bat-fowling (original) (raw)
Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night, while they are at roost. The process involves lighting straw or torches near their roost. After awakening them from their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beaten with bats. The phrase "beating about the bush" is said to be derived from this practice as the trapper's accomplices would go around the bushes to disturb the birds. The practice was also called lanciatoia in Italy and a variation was called low-belling. The low-belling process involves approaching birds with bright lights and using cow bells, which the birds were accustomed to, to approach the birds up close and capture them with a long-handled net.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night, while they are at roost. The process involves lighting straw or torches near their roost. After awakening them from their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beaten with bats. The phrase "beating about the bush" is said to be derived from this practice as the trapper's accomplices would go around the bushes to disturb the birds. The practice was also called lanciatoia in Italy and a variation was called low-belling. The low-belling process involves approaching birds with bright lights and using cow bells, which the birds were accustomed to, to approach the birds up close and capture them with a long-handled net. (en) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Lighttrap.jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | https://web.archive.org/web/20060404124137/http:/digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx%3Ftype=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240240&isize=L http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx%3Ftype=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240240&isize=L |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 4288753 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2453 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1101241472 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Bird dbc:Hunting_methods dbr:Cowbell dbr:Net_(device) dbc:Bird_mortality dbc:Bird_hunting dbr:Italy dbr:Trapping dbr:File:Lighttrap.jpg |
| dbp:date | 2006-04-04 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:url | https://web.archive.org/web/20060404124137/http:/digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx%3Ftype=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240240&isize=L |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Reflist dbt:Webarchive dbt:1728 |
| dct:subject | dbc:Hunting_methods dbc:Bird_mortality dbc:Bird_hunting |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Method |
| rdf:type | dbo:Software yago:Ability105616246 yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Cognition100023271 yago:Know-how105616786 yago:Method105660268 yago:PsychologicalFeature100023100 yago:WikicatHuntingMethods |
| rdfs:comment | Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night, while they are at roost. The process involves lighting straw or torches near their roost. After awakening them from their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beaten with bats. The phrase "beating about the bush" is said to be derived from this practice as the trapper's accomplices would go around the bushes to disturb the birds. The practice was also called lanciatoia in Italy and a variation was called low-belling. The low-belling process involves approaching birds with bright lights and using cow bells, which the birds were accustomed to, to approach the birds up close and capture them with a long-handled net. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Bat-fowling (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Bat-fowling yago-res:Bat-fowling wikidata:Bat-fowling https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4WSBZ |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Bat-fowling?oldid=1101241472&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Lighttrap.jpg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Bat-fowling |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:Bat_fowling dbr:Batfowling |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Bat_fowling dbr:Batfowling dbr:Bird_trapping |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Bat-fowling |
