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…

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.

3,150+species
63national parks
50states
Start your family's list

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See you out there. - the family behind Huck