Wingspan Fan Site

You are bird enthusiasts-researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors-seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats. Each habitat focuses on a key aspect of the growth of your preserves:

• Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
• Lay eggs using marbled egg miniatures in a variety of colors
• Expand your bird collection, drawing from hundreds of unique bird cards

The winner is the player with the most points accumulated from birds, bonus cards, end-of-round goals, eggs, cached food, and tucked birds. …

Each turn, you will take 1 action. This section describes each action in more detail.

1. Play a Bird from your Hand

Before choosing to play a bird from your hand, consider its habitat, food requirements, and egg cost. Each bird has habitat and food requirements, shown in the upper left-hand corner of the card.

Additionally, there may be an egg cost shown at the top of the column in which you're playing the bird (there is no egg cost for the first column). If you cannot afford to pay the full cost, you cannot play the bird. …

Powers on bird cards fall into 3 categories:

When activated (brown): These powers may be activated from right to left whenever you use the corresponding habitat.

A Cache: This refers to putting a food token on a bird (the bird is saving the food for later). You cannot spend that food token; instead, it's worth 1 VP at end of game. If you run out of food tokens, you can cache cards instead (use discarded cards).

B This indicates that the bird is a predator. …

In this first expansion to Wingspan, we increase the scope of the world to include the regal, beautiful, and varied birds of Europe.

These birds feature a variety of new powers, including "round end" powers, powers that increase interaction between players, birds that can cover multiple spaces to make future actions more profitable, and birds that benefit from excess cards/food.

The European birds are designed to be shuffled into the original deck of cards (and cards from future expansions).

The European Expansion also includes an additional tray for storing the growing collection of birds (past, present, and future), as well as 15 purple eggs, extra food tokens, new end-of-round goals and bonus cards, and a colorful new scorepad designed for both multiplayer and solo scoring. …