Birds in flight over the wetlands in KSC

[KSC-00PP-1428]


  • Photo Number: KSC-00PP-1428

  • Release Date: 12-Sep-2000

  • Description: In the early morning skies, flocks of birds soar over KSC wetlands. Kennedy Space Center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge that encompasses 92,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds, as well as a variety of insects.

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    Medium JPEG 1024 683 251373
    High JPEG 2670 1782 1330791

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    Photos By: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Scanned By: Seven/Still Photo Imaging
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    Curator: NASA/KSC Internet Systems Lab (Dumoulin, Downs, Paladino)
    Last Updated: Tuesday August 28 19:02:33 EDT 2001 (Anita Barrett)

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