KSC-04pd1245

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Distinctive with its black and white coloring and very long red legs, this stilt heads for deeper water in a marsh near KSC, which shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Stilts inhabit salt marshes and shallow coastal bays in the East. 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.