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Nice to know. I believe that my study Veerman, P.A.
(1982) ‘A record of avian and other responses to the total solar eclipse – 23 October 1976’,
Australian Bird Watcher 9: 179–209. (I believe the world’s biggest analysis of bird and animal behaviour to a solar eclipse.) Although this one is probably bigger.
Philip
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Sent: Wednesday, 15 October, 2025 3:57 PM
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Subject: [Canberrabirds] Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing - ABC listen
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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