{CaptionsBy}    Information Dynamics, Inc.

{LastEditor}    Anita Barrett

{ScannedBy}     NASA/KSC Public Affairs Office

{author}        NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          15-Mar-1999

{description}   A sandpiper-like Lesser Yellowlegs eyes the water for food in the
                Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which shares a boundary
                with Kennedy Space Center. The gray-streaked wader is found in
                marshy ponds, lake and river shores, and mud flats in Alaska and
                Canada; it winters in the southern United States to southern
                South America. The 92,000-acre refuge 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.

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{title}         A Lesser Yellowlegs hunts for food in the water.

{type}          Image

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