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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - White pelicans feed in a lake north of Kennedy Space Center. In the background are white ibis and great white herons. The Center shares a boundary with the 92,000-acre Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is a habitat for more than 310 species of birds, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles. 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. KSC-04pd0897

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Feeding Frenzy (15668303367)

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Ten American White Pelicans feeding in water and one Double-crested Cormorant among them. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in animal behavior category.

Photo credit: Scott Miert / USFWS

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13/08/2014
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