Can a bird teach us to pray?

I read someone not long ago referring to the Artic Tern…it’s a bird famous for its migration…flying some 12,000 miles from its Artic breeding grounds to the Antarctic and back again each year.  By the way, the 12,000-mile migration is the shortest distance it flies.  According to Wikipedia, one tracking device found birds breeding in Greenland or Iceland covered over 44,000 miles in a year.  

The quote comes from https://www.ornitheology.com where the author said, “There is a moment just before a flock of Arctic Terns lifts off from their northern nests and flies south to Antarctica. A reverential hush falls over the entire colony, a moment of silence, stillness like a congregational prayer. Scientists have given a strange term to this phenomenon. They call it a ‘dread.’”

The group of birds, some 2500 or more, suddenly go silent…it is as if they hold their breath and then suddenly, they “burst into the air and circle south, leaving their nest and their silence behind.”

So, what’s the point?  If the birds can enjoy a moment of silence before they chase the daylight…surely, we can learn to take a moment each morning and seek the Father before we join the daylight chase.