Stalker Khaki

Stalker felt Scout Badge Khaki 1908 to 1928

The Stalker scout badge was also known as the Naturalist and had 2 picture designs; one was a picture of a 16 point sun burst, the other is of a deer's head.

The Badge was known as the Stalker from 1908 to 1913, and from then on was the Naturalist.

The Badge’s first design was of the sun which was used up until 1911, which is when it changed to the Deer’s head.

To Achieve the Badge

According to scouting for boys 1908.

Take a series of twelve photos of wild animals taken from life by the scout and developed and printed by himself. 

According to Scouting for boys 1909

Take a series of twenty photographs of wild animals or wild birds taken from life by the scout, and all developed and printed by himself.

Or alternative - A collection made by the scout of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns or leaves, dried, mounted and correctly named.

Or alternative - Coloured drawings of twenty flowers, ferns , or grasses, or twelve sketches from life of animals or birds; all must be done by the scout himself, and the original sketches, as well as finished pictures must be submitted.

Or alternative - Be able to name sixty different kinds of insects, reptiles or birds in a museum or zoological garden, and give particulars of the lives and habits, appearance and markings of twenty of them