At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform in the Press Site parking lot. In the background is the 12,300-square-foot NASA logo painted on the side of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform in the Press Site parking lot. In the background is the 12,300-square-foot NASA logo painted on the side of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge coexists with Kennedy Space Center and provides a habitat for 330 species of birds, including the osprey. A variety of other wildlife – 117 kinds of fish, 65 types of amphibians and reptiles, 31 different mammals, and 1,045 species of plants – also inhabit the refuge.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
June 3, 2010