{CaptionsBy}    Information Dynamics, Inc (Kay Grinter, Anita Barrett, and Elaine
                Liston)

{LastEditor}    Anita Barrett

{ScannedBy}     Seven/Still Photo Imaging

{author}        NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          18-Feb-2000

{description}   This red-tailed hawk on the roadside at Kennedy Space Center
                appears to be eyeing the photographer. The red-tailed hawk has a
                stocky build and broad, rounded wings. Its wide range covers
                Alaska and Nova Scotia south to Panama. It can frequently be seen
                perched in a tree at the edge of a meadow, watching for movement
                in the grass below. It feeds mainly on small rodents. The Refuge
                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. Kennedy Space
                Center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National
                Wildlife Refuge, encompassing 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.

{highres}       1807 x 2670

{highsize}      997454

{hightype}      JPEG

{lowres}        162 x 240

{lowsize}       55717

{lowtype}       GIF

{mediumres}     520 x 768

{mediumsize}    81773

{mediumtype}    JPEG

{number}        KSC-00PP-0245

{slideres}      112 x 156

{slidesize}     25350

{slidetype}     GIF

{tinyres}       68 x 100

{tinysize}      10373

{tinytype}      GIF

{title}         A Red-Tailed Hawk perches on a stump at KSC.

{type}          Image

{end}