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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An adult osprey delivers a fish dinner to its family, nesting atop a speaker platform in the Press Site parking lot at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background is the 209-foot-tall U.S. flag painted on the side of the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building VAB. The parking lot borders the water of the Launch Complex 39 turn basin, making it an ideal source of food for the osprey. The undeveloped property on Kennedy Space Center is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge provides a habitat for a plethora of wildlife, including 330 species of birds. For information on the refuge, visit http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/Index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper KSC-2014-2847

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Pandion haliaetus

English: An Osprey preparing to dive at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. It stares intently at prey as it extends its talons. Osprey nests are found throughout the Kennedy Space Center and nearby Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Deutsch: Fischadler kurz vor dem Zugriff, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Français : Un Balbuzard pêcheur se préparant à plonger. Cliché pris au centre spatial Kennedy.

Svenska: Ryttlande fiskgjuse förbereder sig för att dyka ned mot ett byte vid John F. Kennedy Space Center i Florida. Flera par fiskgjusar häckar i området kring Kennedy Space Center och i det näraliggande Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

中文：一只准备俯冲的鹗，摄于肯尼迪航天中心。

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A pair of nesting bald eagles share a utility pole on Kennedy Parkway North. Nearby is their 11-foot-deep nest, in a pine tree, which has been home to one or more pairs of eagles for two dozen years. It is one of a dozen eagle nests in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which shares a boundary with Kennedy Space Center. The Southern Bald Eagle ranges throughout Florida and along the coasts of California, Texas, Louisiana, and the south Atlantic states. Bald Eagles are listed as endangered in the U.S., except in five states where they are listed as threatened. The number of nesting pairs of the southern race once numbered several thousand; recent estimates are only 350-375. Most of the southern race nests in Florida Eagles arrive at KSC during late summer and leave for the north in late spring. They move to nest sites in October and November and lay one to three eggs. The young fledge from February to April. 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 KSC00pp0041

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