CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A gaggle of sandpipers fly over glassy water just north of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The sandpipers with dark heads are called Dunlins and those with white heads are called Sanderlings. Kennedy coexists with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, habitat to more than 310 species of birds, 25 mammals, 117 fish and 65 amphibians and reptiles. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date January 6, 2011