{"id":11824,"date":"2021-01-11T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:35:21","slug":"to-catch-a-whippoorwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/to-catch-a-whippoorwill\/","title":{"rendered":"To Catch a Whippoorwill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"n319_w1150\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/17708076088\/in\/photolist-2jp5ZW5-2k3GpE3-2hijkz7-dCzFte-sYNw5G-2cSSH1R-GcnmNP-2egJD4i-2hijkEY-a6WjvM-aeq72t-cE7GWq-bmF3Dj\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7693\/17708076088_5c644ce6d8_w.jpg\" alt=\"n319_w1150\" width=\"304\" height=\"400\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only logical, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Variously attributed to the second-century Oppianus or to the slightly older Dionysius Periegetes, the&nbsp;<em>De aucupio<\/em> gives good advice to the birdcatcher eager to rid his pastures of an annoying pest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To capture the aegithalos, or caprimulgus, smear glue on the udder of a goat. When the bird flies over the fence and into the stall and begins to suck on the goat, it can be captured when the glue gets onto its feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/8597084867\/in\/photolist-G3ygnU-aemSKM-2jtDghA-dY2jya-cZB5of-e4cujm-e4cuCm-fUJunX-d9oMnj-HM5Ezy-H3he6y-2jxGkxp-FMkQ4P-2jc64Wm-abaGsq-dNM2to-XGfP6A-cZRNtQ-aeq72t-bmF3Dj-aBvLc1-cy2biA-cE7GWq-2jiHNis-MoZEhm-rXSG9J-tbA339-csa6Vy-mwuVF5-e3pLa7-bJEhiH-dSUQ8X-cVZpmC-dK51Lp-dQoK5y-aes7oY-dHcHsT-bJLHCi-2jxGktg-dbywzW-e6GiPa-dbyAeo-e6GiGc-aMaAQp-dJuFVT-e6MXS5-zmnGpM-cZR7wW-f5B4FG-dzfNos\" title=\"n292_w1150\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8252\/8597084867_6e630e2729_w.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"400\" alt=\"n292_w1150\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only logical, I suppose. Variously attributed to the second-century Oppianus or to the slightly older Dionysius Periegetes, the&nbsp;De aucupio gives good advice to the birdcatcher eager to rid his pastures of an annoying pest: To capture the aegithalos, or caprimulgus, smear glue on the udder of a goat. When the bird flies over the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/to-catch-a-whippoorwill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Catch a Whippoorwill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/11825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}