日食与鹳

探索宇宙（Universe）！每天都会展示一张我们迷人宇宙的不同图像或照片，并附上一段由专业天文学家（Astronomer）撰写的简短说明。

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

图注：在最近一次日全食（Total solar eclipse）的偏食阶段，一只鹳在波兰的巢中栖息。如果你有幸在安静且接近自然的地方经历一次全食（Total eclipse），你可能会注意到动物不同寻常的日间行为。在全食期间，你可能会听到蟋蟀和青蛙等夜间动物发出的声音，并看到萤火虫。在黑暗中，大多数鸟类会保持安静。鸭子和其他水禽以为到了睡觉时间，便准备单脚站立睡觉，头向后转，喙藏在背部的羽毛里（它们实际上并不是把头藏在翅膀下睡觉）。当阳光在全食终（End of totality）时回归，鸣禽会用它们的晨鸣迎接新的“早晨”。蟋蟀和青蛙再次安静下来。动物和人类恢复了各自的生活，只是被太阳和月球（Moon）的偶然排列短暂地打断了。

Explanation: How 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.