About Huck
It started with
“first person to spot a duck wins.”
Our family loves going on walks. The woods, the creek, the long way around the park - all of it. But if you have kids, you know the honest version: little legs get tired, and “look at that heron!” doesn’t always land.
One afternoon, half as a bribe, we tried a game: first person to spot a duck wins. Suddenly everyone was scanning the pond. The next walk it grew into a list.
Today’s walk: find…
- one duck
- one squirrel
- one fish
- one butterfly
- one oak
And it worked. The walks got longer, not shorter. The kids started spotting things we’d have walked straight past - a woodpecker working a dead limb, a trout holding still in the current. Then came the questions we couldn’t answer. What kind of butterfly is that? Is this an oak or a maple?
So we built the thing we wished we had in our pockets: a field guide that plays the game with you. Point your camera at whatever you find, and Huck tells you what it is and its story - then adds it to your collection, like a lifelong scavenger hunt.
We named it Huck, after the most adventurous kid to ever wander a riverbank.
The game, grown up a little
Huck now holds thousands of hand-illustrated species, live sightings from naturalists across the country, and a map of what’s being spotted near you - in every state and every national park.
See you out there. - the family behind Huck