NASA Kennedy Wildlife - Florida Scrub Jay (3)

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Summary[edit] Description: English: This Florida scrub jay’s bright blue and gray plumage stands out against a backdrop of scrub oaks in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located on the refuge, which provides a habitat for 330 species of birds. Listed as a threatened state species since 1975 and as a threatened federal species since 1987, the Florida scrub jay thrives in an extremely dry habitat called a scrub. Their ideal environment is a relatively open flatwoods of oak or sand pine scrub with trees less than 10 feet tall, wide apart and providing minimal canopy cover. The spaceport is home to one of the three remaining large populations of these intelligent, curious birds. Date: 9 February 2016. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/25289280942/. Author: NASA/Ben Smegelsky. : This image or video was catalogued by Kennedy Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: KSC-20160210-PH_JBS0001_0076. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربيَّة | беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | български | català | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | français | galego | magyar | հայերեն | Bahasa Indonesia | italiano | 日本語 | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | sicilianu | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/−.