The Wetland RAP! Ecosystem Song for Kids by Singing Zoologist Lucas Miller

Get schooled on the wonders of wetlands with the RAPPING zoologist, Lucas Miller. See herons and whooping cranes, sliders and gators, spoonbills and cattails and much more "Living in a Wetland!"
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As explained in this video ( • What's a Wetland? Why ... ), wetlands are transition zones between the upper lands and the deeper waters. If they're grassy, they're marshes. If trees dominate, they're called swamps. And then there are bogs, which are self-contained, not part of a river, bay or bigger body of water. If you want to know more, I highly recommend clicking on that video link.
This song was written by John Stark and Lucas Miller added additional lyrics. The song was produced by CJ, Jerry Fuentes and Lucas Miller and is available on GooglePlay, Spotify, iTunes and pretty much anywhere you can download music.
It's also on the CDs "The Anaconda La Bamba" and "I Love Earth" which you should definitely order at www.lucasmiller.net.
I, Lucas Miller, did most of the filming myself except for the plankton photos (used courtesy of creative commons) seen in the "clam filter-feeding" animation. That clam illustration is from a very old book to which copyright no longer applies.
This was filmed primarily between October 2016 and March of 2017 at Texas state parks, city parks and national wildlife refuges in Texas and Louisiana (that footage was was filmed in the summer of 2014 on a Swamp Tour near New Orleans).
Lyrics:
What a gas! Better look fast
Betcha never heard a rap from a blade of grass
I am a reed; Reid is my name
And you're gonna be digging me next time we get a lot of rain
Me and my cousins gonna soak up a lot of water
Keeping things balanced; like living on a teeter-totter
Our roots go down in the spongy mud
Like a game of Red Rover, we’re holding back a mighty flood
Come on out and visit; canoe through
And you'll see us standing tall waving at you
We're livin' in a wetland, wetland, wetland
Right there where the water meets the dry, dry land
We're livin' in a wetland, wetland, wetland
Talkin' 'bout all the herons, alligators and clams
Hold it man I am a clam
My name is Sam; Sam the clam I am
I slurp the water in through my snorkel-like snout
I filter out the floaties then I squirt the water out
I'm eating plankton those little plants and critters
Floating in the water; teeny tiny like glitter
Poisons in the water hurts the humans and the otters
So I have a heart and do my part just like I know I oughta
I store pollution down in my insides
Cleaning up the water through the low- and the high-tides
Chorus
'scuse me a minute 'cos I gotta get bossy
My name is Maurice-captain of the river posse
20-foot long, king of the alligators
Spend my days whoopin’ up on contaminators
Me and my posse we can't take all the toxins
Gasoline, sewage, phosphate, dioxin
Join our posse, be an ambassador
We don’t want to go extinct like the dinosaur
'cos there are fish, amphibians, and reptiles
Bug and birds by the billion gonna chill awhile
Watersnake on the hunt for a bullfrog
Whooping crane whoopin' it up in the mornin' fog
Willow is a snack for the beaver with the flat tail
Muskrat likes to hang by the cattails
This is a habitat for so many species
It's like a puzzle-the picture's incomplete unless you save all of the pieces!
Filmed at the following locations:
Armand Bayou & Lighthouse Lakes Paddling Trails
Brazos Bend State Park
Goose Island State Park
Mustang Island State Park
Galveston Island State Park
Palmetto State Park
Aransas, Big Branch Marsh and Brazoria National Wildlife Refuges
Armand Bayou Nature Center
Pine Gully Park
Clear Lake Park
Baytown Nature Center
Bay Area Park
Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center (Aransas Pass)
Port Aransas Nature Preserve
South Padre Island Birding And Nature Center
San Juan Wetlands
Big Branch Marsh National
Dripping Springs Waste Water Treatment Facility
A few other odd places here and there...
Enjoy!