{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          17-May-2005

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. Snowy egrets join in a feeding frenzy
                in a marshy area of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
                Ranging from northern California, Oklahoma and Maine to southern
                South America, the snowy egret winters north to California and
                South Carolina. In the East, they are best known as salt marsh
                birds. Once an endangered species, their numbers have increased.
                The refuge was established in 1963 on Kennedy Space Center land
                and water not used by NASA for the space program. The marshes and
                open water of the refuge provide wintering grounds for 23 species
                of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great
                blue herons, 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-05PD-1018

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{title}         KSC-05PD-1018

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