The calling cage (“hiukalicka”) is a rectangular wicker cage. A live fieldfare was kept in this cage and the bird, with its song, lured the other fieldfares of the forest. They stuck to birdlime spread on the sticks pinned to the bushes. The sticks are in a thick sleeve-glued, tar-covered, thick leather case which has been lengthened with a piece of boot-top, called birdlime satchel (“enyüstarisznya”).
Catching fieldfares provided an additional income. Fieldfares were sold in Budapest, Graz, and Vienna. The bird was the nobles' delicacy, as their bowels contained juniper berries. After the bird became protected, catching fieldfares was abandoned.