{CaptionsBy}    InDyne, Inc.

{LastEditor}    Anita Barrett

{ScannedBy}     Seven/Still Photo Imaging

{author}        NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          10-Nov-2000

{description}   At KSC, a red-tailed hawk waits on top of a utility pole for the
                slightest movement in the grass below. It feeds mostly on small
                rodents. Ranging in height from 18 inches to 25 inches, the
                species has a stocky build with a whitish breast and rust-colored
                tail. It has a high-pitched descending scream with a hoarse
                quality. The hawk inhabits mainly deciduous forest and adjacent
                open country from Alaska and Nova Scotia south to Panama. KSC
                shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife
                Refuge, which 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.

{highres}       1741 x 2670

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{hightype}      JPEG

{lowres}        156 x 240

{lowsize}       53702

{lowtype}       GIF

{mediumres}     501 x 768

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{mediumtype}    JPEG

{number}        KSC-00PP-1739

{slideres}      109 x 156

{slidesize}     24663

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{tinyres}       65 x 100

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{title}         A red-tailed hawk at KSC

{type}          Image

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