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{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          08-Jan-2004

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Two roseate spoonbills hunt for
                their supper in the water near KSC. Spoonbills prefer to inhabit
                mangroves, ranging from the coasts of southern Florida, Louisiana
                and Texas, to the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America.
                They feed on shrimps and fish in shallow waters. Spoonbills are
                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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{keywords}      NASA,KSC,Kennedy Space Center

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{number}        KSC-04PD-0043

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{title}         KSC-04PD-0043

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