Tracking
Merit Badge Workbook
This workbook can help you but you still need to read the merit badge pamphlet and additional
new information for this merit badge.
No one can add or subtract from the Boy Scout Requirements #33216. Each Scout must do
each requirement.
Merit Badge Workbooks and more: Online Resources.
Send comments to the workbook developer:
[email protected]. Requirements issued:
04/1/10, Workbook updated: 04/10.
Scout’s Name: ___________________________________ Unit: ________________________
Counselor’s Name: _______________________________ Counselor’s Ph #: ________________________
1. Demonstrate by means of a [tracking] game or otherwise, ability to [track] skillfully in
shelter and wind, etc., showing how to proceed noiselessly and “freeze” when occasion
demands. _____________________________
2. Know and recognize the tracks of ten different kinds of animals or birds in his vicinity, three
of which may be domestic.
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3. Submit satisfactory evidence that he has trailed two different kinds of wild animals or birds
on ordinary ground far enough to determine the direction in which they were going, and
their gait or speed. Give the names of animals or birds trailed, their direction of travel, and
describe gait and speed; or submit satisfactory evidence that he has trailed six different
kinds of wild animal or birds in snow, sand, dust, or mud, far enough to determine the
direction they were going and their gait or speed. Give names of animals or birds, their
direction of travel, and describe gait and speed.
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Tracking p. 2 Merit Badge Workbook Scout's Name: ________________________
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4. Submit satisfactory evidence that he has tracked a human being and deducted from the
trail whether it was man or woman, young or old, the gait or speed, and also give any other
information deduced._______________________________________________________________________
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5. Submit evidence that he has scored at least 30 points from the following groups:
Group (f) and 4 of the 5 groups (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) must be represented in the score of 30
and at least 7 points must be scored from (a), (b), or (c). Make clear recognizable
photographs of
a. Live bird away from nest 4 points each ___________________________________________________
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b. Live woodchuck or smaller wild animal 3 points each _____________________________________
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c. Live wild animal larger than woodchuck 4 points each ____________________________________
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d. Live bird on nest 3 points each __________________________________________________________
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e. Tracks of live wild animal or bird 2 points each ___________________________________________
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f. Make satisfactory plaster cast of wild animal or bird tracks with identification imprint on
back of each 2 points each .________________________________________________________________
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Online Resources: (Use any Internet resource with caution and only with your parent’s or
guardian’s permission.)
Boy Scouts of America: ►scouting.org ►Guide to Safe Scouting ►Age-Appropriate
Guidelines ►Safe Swim Defense
►Scout ►Tenderfoot ►Second Class ►First Class Rank Videos
►Safety Afloat
Boy Scout Merit Badge Workbooks: usscouts.org -or- meritbadge.org Merit Badge
Books: www.scoutstuff.org
Requirement Resources
BSA Merit Badge Resources
• Tracking Page
Tracking p. 3 Merit Badge Workbook Scout's Name: ________________________
• Tracking Resource Packet
• Original Stalking Merit Badge Book
General Resources
