The windswept peninsula Point Reyes is a rough-hewn beauty that has always lured marine mammals and migratory birds as well as scores of shipwrecks.

The result was a record for Italian quail-hunters to lure birds to their doom with portable gramophones.

By contrast, angiosperms evolved a dazzling array of seductive traits like flowers and nectar to lure insects, birds and bats.

In her forward, Ms. Winn describes Mr. Vornberger as "a tree in human disguise," one who can lure birds from their hiding places.

Using electronic or recorded calls to lure birds is banned, for example, and 95 percent of a team's birds must be identified by the entire team.

He had always been supreme with the goose call, luring birds when others failed, but even at his expert lips that stubby instrument was chancy, and on some days he accom- plished nothing.

A trapper has wired him to the tree as bait to lure smaller birds.

When it surfaces, it lies on the water flat like an island, spreading a foul odor and defecating white, to lure fish and birds.

Fruit of S. aucuparia were used in the past to lure and catch birds.

I spent mornings luring colorful birds with crumbs like a little old lady; afternoons first watching humpback whales breach in the channel and then snorkeling among rainbow-sherbet-colored fish.