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KSC-05pd-1017
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — An adult male red-winged blackbird perches on a shrub in a marsh on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Males have glossy black feathers except on the epaulets of their wings, where they are scarlet bordered with buff or yellow. The birds do not attain full adult plumage until their third year. The refuge was established in 1963 on Kennedy Space Center land and water not used by NASA for the space program.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-1017. NASA/KSC, 2005-05-17. Public domain. ID: 05pd1017.
