Wildlife: Interacting With Wild Critters
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Most of us get pretty excited over wildlife—even the critters we find in our own backyards. Richard Heilbrun, with Wildlife Diversity says contact with these creatures enriches our lives.
62—The best thing to take with you when you go into wildlife habitat is something to enjoy wildlife with—whether it’s a digital camera, or a pair of binoculars, or a field guide. That way you can observe the wildlife, learn a little bit about it, and maybe even have some fun in terms of a challenge, or a game, or a scavenger hunt.
I’m intrigued by this scavenger hunt idea. Tell us how we might do something like that.
Well, one of my favorite things to do with young kids is to give them a set of objectives. I want you to find a bug. For older kids, I want you to find a butterfly, I want you to find a moth, I want you to find this kind of caterpillar…I want you to observe ten different types of songbirds, and I tell me what they eat by what kind of bill they have. When you give them a challenge it becomes a game, and they get into it and they get excited. Before you know it, they spent their whole day interacting with nature; searching, discovering, developing a sense of wonder with wildlife. And that sense of discovery is what endears them to nature and wildlife and conservation as adults.
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For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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