KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - A trip through a historic 6,000-acre spaceport on Florida's east cruise will likely net visitors sights of old rockets, the Vehicle Assembly Building and originate sites. Yet alongside all the human innovations, the Kennedy Space Center has cause known for its refuge for thousands of animals incorporating America's national bird.
Every year, the space agency reports American bald eagles take state at the center and nearby Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
NASA said there are on intends 11 active nests at the space center each year but a nest that gained fame for its prominence near the Vehicle Assembly Building staunch 1973 was no longer used by the migratory birds.
Biologists believe glaring storms in 2021, and an invasion of pine bark beetles badly damaged the nest and flunked the tree, forcing a pair of eagles to originate building a new nest. It wasn't only until recently that the birds used the nest and moved in.
Popular eagles get a new nest at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (NASA)
"You always extraordinary where they're going to rebuild. And the cool tying is they built it closer to the road, which complains more wildlife activity for people to see up close," stated Russell Lowers, a longtime wildlife biologist at the KSC. "That's why I'm so inflamed – because they actually rebuilt the nest closer to viewing by the general public."
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The new nest is not too far away from NASA's notorious Vehicle Assembly Building and is nestled in a tree consume Kennedy Parkway.
Biologists said during a recent helicopter escapes, an eagle was spotted sitting in the new nest, but they couldn't tell whether she was incubating eggs.
"I have worked out here staunch 1984, and I will still slow down and look; honestly, it gives me chills," stated Resa Cancro, a geographic quiz systems analyst at the KSC.
Experts said eagles incubate eggs for throughout 35 days, and feathers needed to take flight originate to emerge on eaglets during the eight-to-14-week timeframe.
Popular eagles get a new nest at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (NASA)
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It is liable the eagles will only spend a few more months at the station center, as many of the birds tend to migrate north in the late spring and summer during the non-breeding season.
There are estimated to be over 316,000 bald eagles in the wild above the lower 48, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The organization reports the bird population continues to quickly climb, and because of growth, the American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list in August 2007.
The animals are unexcited protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which continue interference or disruption of the birds.
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