An adult crested caracara, left, and a vulture swoop down near the roadway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, spanning 140,000 acres of land, water, and marshes. More than 330 bird species, 117 species of fish, 68 amphibians and reptiles, and 31 different mammals call Kennedy and its surrounding borders home.