A great blue heron stands in the water at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. A frequent sight around Kennedy, this large heron inhabits lakes, ponds, rivers, and marshes in a range from Alaska south to Mexico and the West Indies. NASA Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge that includes salt-water estuaries, brackish marshes, hardwood hammocks, and pine flatwoods.