{"id":214486,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214486-the-eclipse-and-the-stork","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214486","headline":"The Eclipse and the Stork","content":"\u003cp\u003eNASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do animals react to a total solar eclipse?   The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the 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 animal behaviors.     During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies.   In the dark, most birds are 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 tucked under one wing).   When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new \"morning\" with their dawn songs.   The crickets and frogs go quiet again.   Animals and people resume their lives, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.     APOD's main NASA site is moving : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto by Włodzimierz Bubak\n Text: \nCecilia Chirenti \n(NASA\nGSFC, \nUMCP, \nCRESST II)\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\n\nHow do animals react to a total solar eclipse?   The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the 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 animal behaviors.     During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies.   In the dark, most birds are 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 tucked under one wing).   When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new \"morning\" with their dawn songs.   The crickets and frogs go quiet again.   Animals and people resume their lives, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.     APOD's main NASA site is moving : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod\n\n\nPhoto by Włodzimierz Bubak\n Text: \nCecilia Chirenti \n(NASA\nGSFC, \nUMCP, \nCRESST II)","published_at":"2026-09-03T14:16:03-07:00","updated_at":"2026-09-03T18:12:50-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Specola on Kudos365. View their photo published Sep/03/2026 on Science - Tech - Astronomy. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/7c6241a3-a347-4a7c-b34e-a0ffecb59c02.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":2,"categories":[{"name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214486-the-eclipse-and-the-stork","headline":"The Eclipse and the Stork","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/7c6241a3-a347-4a7c-b34e-a0ffecb59c02.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T14:16:03-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":2}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}]}}