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[Narrator] This is Passport to Texas. We get pretty excited over wildlife and Richard Heilbrun,
with Wildlife Diversity Program, says contact with these creatures enriches our lives.
[Richard Heilbrun] The best thing to take with you when you go out into wildlife habitat
is something to enjoy wildlife with, whether it’s a digital camera, or a pair of binoculars,
or a field guide and 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.
[Narrator] I’m intrigued by the scavenger hunt idea. Tell us how we might do something
like that.
[Richard Heilbrun] 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. [Child] I see a nest.
[Richard Heilbrun] And that sense of discovery is what endears them to nature and wildlife
and conservation as adults.
[Narrator] The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program supports our series and is celebrating
75 years of funding diverse conservation projects throughout Texas. For Texas Parks and Wildlife,
I’m Cecilia Nasti.