Below is from a Beretta 412 single-shot advertisement 1950s-60s. Note the songbird call cages. Bottom photo shows French "miroir aux alouettes" (lark mirrors) used to shoot larks. The devices are staked into the ground and a cord is wrapped around the base which rotates when the two cord ends are alternately pulled. Perhaps the greatest destruction of European songbirds occurs in Cyprus and other locations where tree and brush branches are coated with a sticky substance which traps the feet of the birds which are migrating.
