
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Distinctive with its black and white coloring and very long red legs, this stilt marches through the shallows of a marsh near KSC. Stilts inhabit salt marshes and shallow coastal bays in the East. KSC shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. 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.
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KSC-04pd1243
Date Created
June 4, 2004
Center
KSC
Media Type
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Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL
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