Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2026 September 3
    [2]A sunset view of the solar eclipse, framed behind a stork standing
                           on one leg in her nest.

                          The Eclipse and the Stork
               Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Włodzimierz Bubak
     Text: [4]Cecilia Chirenti ([5]NASA [6]GSFC, [7]UMCP, [8]CRESST II)

   Explanation: How do animals react to a [9]total solar eclipse? The
   [10]featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a
   partial phase of the [11]recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky
   enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to
   nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime [12]animal behaviors.
   During totality, you may hear [13]nighttime sounds like crickets and
   frogs and see [14]fireflies. In the dark, most birds are [15]quiet.
   Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl
   prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their
   beaks tucked into their back feathers (they don't really sleep with
   their heads [16]tucked under one wing). When [17]sunlight returns at
   the end of totality, songbirds greet the new "morning" with their dawn
   [18]songs. The crickets and frogs go [19]quiet again. Animals and
   people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by the [20]chance
   alignment of our [21]Sun and [22]Moon.

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