Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing - ABC listen

["Rob Geraghty via Canberrabirds " <>]

In his book "Green Mountains", Bernard O'Reilly described a total solar eclipse at their home atop the McPherson Ranges. He said that their chickens went to roost, and kookaburras called as though it was sunset. After the totality, the kookaburras just flew away without calling as though it was dawn.

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, 15:58 David McDonald (Personal), <> wrote:

Yesterday’s Lab Notes on ABC RN deals with this topic using data from the 2024 USA total eclipse of the sun:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lab-notes/lab-notes-how-solar-eclipses-trick-birds-into-singing/105885028

The 15 min podcast is based on the speaker’s open access paper published in Science (the first author is a PhD student, pretty good to be in Science!) ‘Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science’ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx3025

Best wishes – David

 

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