
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A great blue heron is captured in a typical pose as it scans the nearby water in NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Turn Basin for food.
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August 23, 2005
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A great blue heron patiently stalks its prey in the marshes around KSC. The heron is one of 310 species of birds that inhabit the National Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, which shares a boundary with KSC. The marshes and open water of the refuge also 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.
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