{"id":8243,"date":"2014-01-10T04:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2014-01-07T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:28:09","slug":"giddiness-of-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/10\/giddiness-of-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Giddiness of the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/128050#page\/147\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8244\" alt=\"Albin\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-07-16.13.31.png\" width=\"483\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-07-16.13.31.png 483w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-07-16.13.31-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of his account of the <strong>Wood Lark<\/strong>,\u00a0Eleazar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/128050#page\/146\/mode\/1up\">Albin offers some practical advice<\/a> to anyone keeping the species in captivity. Keep the cage clean, he says, and don&#8217;t hang it out in the rain. Feather parasites can be avoided by giving the birds fresh sand to dust in and letting them bask in the sun. And to cure<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Giddiness of the Head, [caused] by too much feeding on Hempseed &#8230; give them Meal-worms, or Ants and their Eggs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The males should be given liquorice, candy, and &#8220;a blade or two of Saffron once a Week&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>this makes him long winded, and lavish in his Song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not necessarily an advantage in a cagebird, I&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of his account of the Wood Lark,\u00a0Eleazar Albin offers some practical advice to anyone keeping the species in captivity. Keep the cage clean, he says, and don&#8217;t hang it out in the rain. Feather parasites can be avoided by giving the birds fresh sand to dust in and letting them bask in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/10\/giddiness-of-the-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giddiness of the Head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243"}],"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=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}