NASA Kennedy Wildlife - Gopher Tortoise

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Summary[edit] Description: English: A gopher tortoise crosses a road at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge encompasses 140,000 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. Date: 28 April 2016. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/26793057234/. Author: NASA/Bill White. : This image or video was catalogued by Kennedy Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: KSC-20160428-PH_SWW0001_0002. 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）‎ | +/−.