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If you like watching wildlife, you're already a naturalist. A naturalist studies living creatures and plants in the wild. When you visit a nature center to learn about birds, reptiles, mammals, trees, and wildflowers, your guide is a naturalist. For this badge, you might keep an insect zoo, watch tadpoles change into frogs, or make a terrarium for wild plants. Perhaps your den will visit a real zoo or take a nature walk in the woods. Naturalists have a great love for nature. They notice details that other people miss. They know that the well-being of all living things is interconnected. |
| Do Four of These: |
| 1. Keep an "insect zoo" that you have collected. You might have crickets, ants, or grasshoppers. Study them for a while and then release them. |
| 2. Set up an aquarium or terrarium. Keep it for at least a month. |
| 3. Visit a museum of natural history, nature center, or zoo with your family, den, or pack. Tell what you saw. |
| 4. Watch for birds in your yard, neighborhood, or town for one week. Identify the birds you see and write down where and when you saw them. |
| 5. Learn about the bird flyways closest to your home. Find out which birds use these flyways. |
| 6. Learn to identify poisonous plants and venemous reptiles found in your area. |
| 7. Watch six wild animals (snakes, turtles, fish, birds, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind of place (forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell what they were doing. |
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| When you pass each requirement, ask your den leader or counselor to initial your Naturalist scoreboard. |
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