A wood stork eats breakfast while wading in brackish water at NASA's Kennedy Space Center around dawn.

A wood stork eats breakfast while wading in brackish water at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida around dawn. In 1984, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the wood stork an endangered species.

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/Frank Michaux