Wingspan Oceania Expansion – Stonemaier Games

Wingspan Oceania Expansion

Wingspan Oceania Expansion

  • Designer Elizabeth Hargrave
  • Artists Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo

This second expansion to Wingspan focuses on birds in Australia and New Zealand.

Expansion (requires base game)
40-70 mins Game Length
5 mins Setup Time
(with base game)
1-5 Players
Medium Game Weight
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In this second expansion to Wingspan, we feature the colorful and awe-inspiring birds of Oceania. The Oceania bird cards are designed to be shuffled into the bird cards from the base game, with or without other expansions.

This expansion includes new player mats and a new food type, allowing players to explore different strategies in this new environment. It also includes new bonus cards and more end-of-round goals, as well as a new color of egg.

Due to the sheer number of birds affected by the Australian wildfires, Stonemaier Games announced early that the next expansion for Wingspan will focus on the region of Oceania. For each email we collected by January 22, Stonemaier Games donated $1 to WIRES, a wildlife rescue organization in Australia. Our total donation was $7,439 USD ($10,834 AUD).

Featured Components

  • 1 box (296x215x40mm; total weight: 1.4 kg)
  • 15 egg miniatures (yellow)
  • 5 player mats
  • 5 wooden dice
  • 69 nectar tokens
  • 5 bonus cards  (57x87mm)
  • 4 goal tiles
  • 95 bird cards  (57x87mm)
  • 1 scorepad
  • 1 reference tile
  • 1 Automa rulebook
  • 7 Automa cards  (57x87mm)
  • 1 core rulebook with appendix

Media

Release Details: The Wingspan Oceania Expansion was available to preorder from Stonemaier Games on October 28, 2020, with preorders shipped from fulfillment centers in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK in November and December.

Product Details: The SKU is STM903 and retail release date was December 18, 2020.

Beth Sobel also contributed art for the player mats.

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FAQ: General Questions

Does the expansion fit in the original Wingspan box?

The European Expansion components can fit tightly into the original box. The extra components included in the Oceania Expansion will not. A bigger storage option is in the works.

Can I play this expansion without the Wingspan core game? Is it balanced if I mix and match various components?

All of our expansions require at least some components from the core game (action tokens, eggs, bonus cards, goal tiles and board, etc). However, in terms of bird cards, you can mix and match as you wish: Oceania and core, Oceania and European, etc. With smaller groups, you could even play with only the Oceania birds or only the European birds. Or you could do what I’m doing and shuffle all birds together. The various mixes are balanced (including bonus card percentages, within a percentage point or so).

If you play with nectar, you’ll need to use the new player mats, Oceania birds, and the Oceania food dice. If you don’t play with nectar, you can play with either version of the player mats, the original food dice, and any birds (except the 17 birds in Oceania that have nectar in their costs/abilities).

Can I play this expansion without other expansions?

Absolutely. We don’t make any expansions that depend on other expansions.

Are the original player mats now useless?

Far from it–please keep your original mats! The Oceania mats are simply different, that’s all. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion (or future expansions), you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats. The original mats have considerably less iconology on them, making them more welcoming for new players. Also, whenever we create a new expansion, we must operate under the assumption that a significant number of people who buy it will only have the core game. So while new expansions will hopefully function with the Oceania playmats, they’ll be designed primarily for the original player mats.

Design Diary

October 9: The Rulebooks

You now know everything that’s in the Oceania expansion, so the next step is to share the rulebook with you (and some photos showcasing everything in the expansion). It’ll be more fun for you to feel the fancy paper we use for rulebooks in November/December, but for now you can use the appendix in the core rulebook to see every bird in the expansion.

In regards to those birds, I want to take a second to thank Travis Willse for the time he spent examining every bird in the game (and to Elizabeth for implementing those revisions). Also, thank you to all of the playtesters and proofreaders who elevated the quality of the game far beyond what we could have done on our own.

Here is a link to a folder that contains both the core rulebook/appendix and the Automa rulebook. The preview on Box may distort elements of the PDF, so I highly recommend downloading the files before reading them.

Today is when advance-copy reviewers can start to show off their early copies of Wingspan Oceania, and I’ll note link to them in the comments here and on our website. I’ll also let you know in a week or so when they can post reviews. I’ll also be back to post some polls and remind you when the preorder goes live (most likely in late October, with shipping in November). For now, enjoy your deep dive into the rulebooks, and have a great weekend!

October 8: Automa Solo Mode

Wingspan Automa lead designer David Studley is here today to discuss the solo mode for Oceania. Thanks David!

Expansions are fun for us as Automa designers. The hard work behind us, we get to mess around with what we’ve already done and what the designer has added, in new and different ways. In our projects with expansions, you’ve seen us add scenarios, campaigns, or rules to play against multiple Automas.

As far as Wingspan is concerned, I find that I never completely stop thinking about it. When I get a hint that Elizabeth has begun working on the next installment, my mind starts racing and I grow impatient to see what’s new. I wonder what we will need to figure out how to handle. Will it be easy to make simple; will it be hard to make fun for the solo player?

Oceania provided plenty for Team Automa to think about. Nectar turned out to be a challenge, actually. But we worked at it and thanks to a cadre of awesome playtesters, I hope we’ve struck that nice balance of simple and fun. You’ll let us know. Then there was this single end-of-round goal we had to grapple with, as its fate was decided. It was too much fun to omit, so we made it work. As I’m writing this I don’t know whether the goals have been unveiled, so I’ll leave it for you to guess which one I’m talking about, whenever you get to see them all.

Rather than getting into the minutiae of teaching Automa how to use the new treats that Elizabeth came up with, I thought I’d share some new tricks that we taught Automa to do on its own. Two ideas stemming from comments by Wingspan solo players had been rolling about in my head for many months and evolved into two new Automa variants you will find in Wingspan Oceania. Before I talk about them, I want to be clear that neither is as dramatic or game changing as they might sound. They are simple and subtle, and they won’t be for everyone. But we hope that some of you will find them to be fun alternatives.

The first arose from a post wondering if Wingspan could be played cooperatively against Automa, so the family could include their younger child who was just shy of being able to play it competitively. With a new variant, you may now play against Automarazzi, that cares nothing about the birds, but merely wants to profit by snapping pictures of the rarest. Together you work to beat it at its own game.

Against Automarazzi, each player works in their own habitat, as in the regular game. But a simple set of rules allows players to share food, eggs, and bird cards, while trying to stay ahead. At the end of the game your average score (or in a more advanced version, lowest score) is compared against Automarazzi’s to decide who triumphs. Please note: This does not turn Wingspan into a full-blown, story-driven, tension-inducing cooperative experience. It seeks to provide a relaxed way to play together for times when you want to try something a bit different.

The other variant is borne of discussions I’ve had with solo players who lamented (or worse) that Automa gains nothing from bird powers you activate, that provide benefits to other players (e.g. All players draw 1 bird card from the deck). I still contend that it doesn’t negatively impact gameplay against Automa, but that doesn’t mean that giving players something else to consider is a bad thing. Simplicity was always the most important facet of Wingspan’s Automa design. So, if I was going to add this element back to the brown powers, the rules needed to be barely noticeable, despite the fact these powers can do all sorts of different things. It was a fun challenge and I hope we’ve managed to achieve that.

With Automa’s Hoard, Automa essentially collects fractions of points whenever your activated brown powers should give opponents a benefit. Interestingly, its impact can be barely noticeable; it all depends on whether you find yourself playing a lot of the cards that ‘interact’ with opponents. The rules just sit there—doing nothing—until you decide to use a brown power that involves other players. As Elizabeth adds more cards that encourage you to consider your opponents, there are more opportunities for the Automa’s Hoard to tip the balance.

So that’s two new bits for you to try out. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

David can be found on twitter @StudleyGamer and he actively participates on BoardGameGeek @DJStudley.

October 7: A Few More Birds to Showcase

Before I share the details about the Automa solo system and the full rulebook later this week, I wanted to spend one more day showcasing a few bird cards. I continue to be amazed and impressed by the abilities that designer Elizabeth Hargrave thinks of and how they’re tied to the nature of each bird, and I continue to adore and appreciate the art that Natalia and Ana spend hundreds of hours crafting by hand for each expansion.

First up are a variety of “when activated” birds. Several of them look at adjacent birds or even players, a few others create positive player interactions, among other abilities.

Next is a batch of “when played” birds. You’ve already seen the Kiwi, but I wanted to show both it and the Wrybill and Kea, as I like how they give you a range of choices for bonus cards. I also really like how the Wrybill, Quail, and Kea, as the timing of when you play them in relation to other factors is crucial.

I think I’ve mentioned this, but I’ll say it again: You can play with only the birds in Oceania at lower player counts, but ultimately you’ll either shuffle two sets of birds together (e.g., Oceania and European, Oceania and core, etc) or just shuffle all bird cards together (that’s what I’ll do). And, as I previously said, if want to set nectar tokens/dice and the new mats aside for a slightly simpler game, you can absolutely do that–you’ll still have 78 new birds in Oceania after removing the 17 nectar-related birds.

Do any of these birds give you ideas for combos you’d like to build? I’ll see you on Facebook Live on the Stonemaier Games FB page at 10:00 CT today (Wednesday) if you’d like to discuss Oceania face to face!

October 6: Kiwis and Flightless Birds

Yesterday some hawk-eyed Wingspanners noticed that the Kakapo’s wingspan is an asterisk (*) instead of a number. What’s up with that?

Before I explain how flightless birds work in Oceania, here’s Elizabeth with some notes about the Kiwi, a bird that Megan and I endlessly searched for while vacationing in New Zealand last year:

“Even if New Zealanders didn’t call themselves Kiwis, it would have been a no-brainer to include a kiwi in this expansion. I had a lot of trouble choosing a fact to go on the bottom of this card. In addition to the fact that it has a massive egg-to-body ratio, other contenders included: 

  • Kiwis are mostly nocturnal, and have whiskers to help them forage at night.
  • Kiwis also have an excellent sense of smell, and are the only bird in the world with nostrils at the end their beaks.
  • Having evolved in the absence of land-based predators, kiwis are flightless, and have only vestigal little wing nubs. 
  • Kiwis are now extremely threatened, primarily because of the introduction of land-based predators including cats, rats, and weasels.

Without land predators, several birds in the region have evolved to be flightless like the kiwi, and their vestigal wings mean people don’t really bother measuring their wingspans. The solution I came up with is to make flightless birds wild any time you’re looking at wingspans. This occasionally results in a hawk eating a Cassowary (we’ll say it stole a chick). But it has particularly fun effects when interacting with some new bonus cards that use wingspan in new ways.”

Here’s the rulebook explanation for flightless birds:

A few birds in the deck have a * symbol for their wingspan. These are flightless birds, and some have only vestigial wings. For any bird power or bonus card that contains a condition on wingspan, flightless birds function as wild cards. For example:

• Flightless birds always satisfy conditions on wingspan in a predator’s power.
• Flightless birds can be treated as having any value for bonus cards that give points for birds with wingspans in ascending or descending order.

There are actually just 5 flightless birds in the expansion (out of 95), but given that we have rules about them now, I think we’ll likely see more of them show up in future expansions.

Which flightless bird are you eager to add to your habitat?

I’ll be back tomorrow with some other interesting abilities Elizabeth created, followed by some stories about the Automa solo mode and the full rulebook reveal. I’ll also be on Facebook Live tomorrow at 10:00 CT on the Stonemaier Games FB page.

October 5: The New Yellow Ability on Bird Cards

In each Wingspan expansion, we’ve sought to add a new bird ability that is compatible with all other abilities while adding a fresh twist to the game. For Oceania, these are the yellow abilities, and they are game end powers.

Here’s Elizabeth: “Perhaps the most delightful surprises as I went through the birds of Oceania were the fairywrens and the Gouldian Finches (aka Gould’s Finch, which I used here for clarity with the Historian bonus). I knew about the parrots and the big flightless birds, but not these adorable, brightly-colored charmers. Some of my favorite birds in the expansion, including these, got new yellow powers that only activate at the end of the game. Many of them have a set-collection aspect to them, similar to some of the bonus cards. Others give you one last powerful action at the end of the game.”

Out of the 95 new bird cards included in this expansion, 16 of them have yellow abilities. As Elizabeth noted, they can feel a bit like bonus cards: If you have them early in the game, you can plan around them, whether or not you play them right away. If you don’t get them until late in the game, they can still provide a nice points boost.

In my experience, many these birds open up a host of interesting strategies. They’ve also made the end game particularly exciting for me, especially cards like the Kakapo and Gould’s Finch.

Here’s the description from the rules:

“Some birds have yellow powers that activate only once, at the end of the game. Activate these powers after completing all end-of-round steps. If you have more than one bird with a “game end” power, you may activate them in any order. These birds do not trigger birds with pink “once between turns” powers.”

To help players remember when the yellow abilities trigger at the end of the game, we added a new reference tile with a note about them.

Thanks to Natalia and Ana for bringing these birds to life with their vibrant illustrations! I look forward to hearing your stories about game end abilities (and perhaps you’ll even have some ideas for additions to this power for the future).

Tomorrow I’ll share the meaning of the mysterious * in the Kakapo’s wingspan!

 

October 4: Bonus Cards and Goal Tiles

There are 5 new bonus cards and 4 new double-sided goal tiles in Oceania, all of which are compatible with any combination of Wingspan expansions (even if you don’t use the new nectar-related components in Oceania). I’ll showcase a few of them today, and you can discover the others when you open your copies of Wingspan Oceania or when reviewers share them later this month.

I think my favorite addition to the bonus cards is Elizabeth’s “ascending/descending” system. Pictured here is the Grassland Data Analyst as an example, which wants you to get “Consecutive birds in the grasslands with ascending or descending wingspans.”

First, I like that there’s another reason to look at the size of the birds. Second, I love the puzzle this presents, starting even with the first bird you play. Do you pick a small bird and then play consecutively bigger birds? Or start big and go small? Or start in the middle and stay flexible for the next bird? Third, I just like “order matters” mechanisms in general. 8 points is nothing to scoff at if you pull off this type of bonus card across an entire habitat!

There are two bonus tiles I’d like to discuss here. The first is yet another brilliant touch from Elizabeth, who does indeed listen to and evaluate your requests in the Wingspan forums. While we think Wingspan hits a sweet spot at 8/7/6/5 actions (26 total), some people have asked for an extended version of the game, and we’ve heard some clever house rules.

Now there is a goal tile that extends the game incrementally depending on which round it’s paired with. The “no goal” tile means that there’s no goal at all that round, so players don’t place an action token on the goal mat…meaning that they keep that action token. So instead of 8/7/6/5, you could have an 8/8/7/6 game (29 actions) or fewer if it’s paired with a later round. While goal tiles are typically randomized, if you want a slightly longer game, you could manually select it for the first round.

The other type of goal is shown below as the “beak pointing left” tile (on the back is “beak pointing right”). I think this is the first goal that has players looking at the actual bird art, which Elizabeth discovered is remarkably unambiguous in regards to the direction each bird is facing. Big thanks to Natalia and Ana for creating such clear bird art for Wingspan!

Thanks for joining me for another weekend post, and tomorrow I’ll delve into much-anticipated new yellow ability on bird cards! As a bonus for today, here’s one of my cats, Biddy, deciding what to do with a kiwi Beanie Baby (neither of which are included in the expansion).

October 3: Bin Chickens

On this weekend design diary, it’s time to address the biggest question about the Oceania expansion. Hundreds of people have inquired about this topic, and it involves an addition to the game that will forever change the scope of Wingspan.

Without further adieu, I would like to reveal that yes, Wingspan Oceania includes a bin chicken.

Here’s Elizabeth to explain:

If you’re not in on the intense love-to-hate relationship that Australians have with the bin chicken, aka the Australian Ibis (or even if you are), check out this short mockumentary: https://youtu.be/w4dYWhkSbTU Yes, of course it’s in the expansion. And of course it interacts with the discard pile.”

This. Changes. Everything.

I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect, but in all seriousness, I think it’s pretty cool that Elizabeth added some interactions with the discard pile. The Australian Ibis’ “when activated” ability reads:

“Shuffle the discard pile, then draw 2 cards from it. Choose 1 and tuck it behind this card or add it to your hand. Discard the other.”

The appendix clarifies that the discard pile is still the discard pile after this ability (not a fresh deck of cards). And yes, the bin chicken is the only card in the expansion that interacts with the discard pile, though we might revisit the ability in another region for other similar birds (though really, does any bird compare to the majestic nature of the bin chicken)?

I love the versatility of this ability. First, you get to revisit cards that were previously discarded–maybe you really wanted one of those birds! Second, even if you don’t want to play either of the birds you get, the bin chicken is happy to eat the bird and give you a point.

Please share your favorite bin chicken story in the comments below. I’m off to watch the 3-minute documentary Elizabeth shared in her description, and I’ll be back either tomorrow or Monday with more information about this expansion. Have a good weekend!

October 2: Nectar

“Plant-based sugars are an important food source for many birds in Oceania.”

I was excited to hear that designer Elizabeth Hargrave had found inspiration in a new food source for the Oceania expansion. She does a lot of research during the design process for each of these expansions, and she reads as many of the threads and comments in the Wingspan Facebook group as possible.

Here’s Elizabeth:

“One of the books I read getting ready for this expansion was the fascinating Where Song Began by biologist Tim Low. He argues that more sugar is available to birds in Australia than in other parts of the world. There’s plenty of sun for photosynthesis, but the region has poor soils that don’t give plants the nutrients they need to turn their photosynthesized sugars into new tissue. So they give it away to pollinators as nectar, or they exude it in a substance called manna. Insects that eat the plants’ sugary sap also excrete extra sugar as lerp or honeydew. And all of this extra sugar becomes food for birds. (Read more about this here: http://www.birdlife.org.au/australian-birdlife/detail/exuding-abundance)

It seemed weird not to have this important food source in the game — especially when several of the birds I wanted to include rely heavily on these food sources. But how to include it when the Australia deck is meant to be mixed with other cards that don’t use it? My solution was to make nectar wild. But a simply wild food source isn’t particularly interesting, because it’s always good. What if it also disappears? And it matters where you spend it? Through some trial and error we landed on a system that creates some tough choices and another reason to be watching what your opponents are doing.”

Nectar is intertwined into a number of elements in the expansion. Oceania includes 69 nectar tokens (basically, as many as we could fit onto the punchboard). At the start of the game, in addition to the 5 total food tokens and/or bird cards, each player starts with 1 nectar. From then on, the primary way to get nectar is to gain it from the birdfeeder using the 5 new food dice, which replace the original dice when playing with Oceania.

A few birds have nectar as part of their cost to play or in their abilities, though it’s generally used as a wild food. Because the very nature of nectar is transient, and because it’s more versatile than any other food type, any nectar remaining in your personal food supply at the end of the round is discarded.

Exactly where you use nectar actually matters too. When you use nectar to play a bird, use an “any food” bird ability (not specific food), or upgrade the core benefit of an action via a bonus, you place the nectar token on the left side of your player mat in the corresponding habitat instead of returning it to the general supply. The nectar helps that habitat flourish, and at the end of the game, if you have the most nectar in a habitat, you gain 5 points (second place gets 2 points). You’ll do this for each habitat.

Nectar is the reason I mentioned yesterday that you’ll need to use the expansion player mats if you play with Oceania birds. However, I should note that nectar is found in the costs/abilities of 17 birds in the expansion (around 20%). So it is possible to simply remove those 17 birds and play with the rest without using nectar tokens, the expansion player mats, or the Oceania food dice. We think you’ll enjoy the addition of these elements, but I’m sharing this to assure you that the expansion can be what you want it to be–if you just want more birds, goal tiles, and bonus cards, you can absolutely play that way.

But I love the addition of nectar, and playtesters seemed to really enjoy it too. It gives you more flexibility and options, it feels good to roll nectar on the food dice, and there’s a sense of progression whenever you spend nectar as it piles up in your habitats (and yes, we included enough tokens). I look forward to hearing your thoughts and stories about nectar when you get Oceania to the table!

October 1: New Player Mats

Before I dive into a major component in the Wingspan Oceania expansion, I want to briefly mention that we’re currently running a huge charity auction with 10 signed advance copies of Wingspan Oceania and 10 sets of special Meeplesource Oceania bird tokens (among other rewards) at stake for the winning bidders. Even if you’re not interested in bidding, it’s a way to discover 10 amazing content creators in the board game community. Check it out here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/275718/stonemaier-games-2020-charity-auction

Onward to Oceania! When Elizabeth and I were originally brainstorming ideas for this expansion, we kept coming back to the habitats themselves. We discussed the possibility of extending the mat to the right or at the bottom, among other ideas. But through Elizabeth’s deliberate design process, she found that adding to the mat created a host of other issues and inconsistencies, so instead she redesigned the core mat itself while keeping in the spirit of the original game.

The result is the new player mats you see here. If you play with Oceania birds (which I’ll talk about soon), you must use the new player mats; you can even use the mats in games of Wingspan without other elements of Oceania. The backs of the mats are a slightly different shade of faux leather so you can differentiate them from the original mats when they’re closed.

What’s different about these mats? Elizabeth focused on progression–every core benefit in each habitat is objectively better than the previous benefit. This actually resulted in more parallel elements–in column 1, you either get 1 food, 1 egg, or 1 card. The next three columns give you 2 of the desired benefit, then 3, then 4 when you complete a row.

Take a look at the bonuses, as they’ve changed quite a bit. Unlike the original mats, they now appear in the first column. Many of the bonuses offer a choice in the cost–in the grasslands, you can spend either a card from hand OR a food to lay an extra egg. There’s even an action in the grasslands that gives you this choice twice.

There are now also a few bonuses you can trigger before you gain the primary benefit. Up in the forest in the second and fourth columns, you can spend a food to reset the birdfeeder before selecting 2 dice. There’s a similar bonus in the wetlands that allows you to reset the bird tray. Players and playtesters have asked for such options for a while now, and Elizabeth found this way of integrating them into the core interface.

Overall, there are a LOT more icons on this player mat than the original. We didn’t want to overwhelm players with information, something we discussed a lot during the development process. It helps that you only ever need to focus on the leftmost exposed space in each habitat. If you’re introducing new players to Wingspan, though, I’d recommend using the original mats.

UPDATE: I’ve seen several people note the misconception that the original mats are “useless” or “obsolete,” which couldn’t be further from the truth. The Oceania mats are simply different, that’s all. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion (or future expansions), you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats.

I’m ignoring one element of the new mats for now (that pink icon you can see in the wetlands and on the far left), but I’ll discuss that tomorrow!

September 30: Box and Eggs

Normally this would be the day that we would first announce the continent for the new Wingspan expansion, but the rampant wildfires in Australia inspired us to reveal the Oceania location early and start collecting launch notification requests. For each email we collected by January 22, Stonemaier Games donated $1 to WIRES, a wildlife rescue organization in Australia. Their total donation was $7,439 USD ($10,834 AUD).

For this first design diary post, I’ll just focus on a few elements I’ve already revealed aspects of, and tomorrow I’ll start discussing the new gameplay elements. These design diaries will continue for a little over a week (they’re written by publisher Jamey with contributions from designer Elizabeth), followed by advance copy reviews, the preorder in late October, and shipping in November.

The Wingspan Oceania box measures 296x215x40mm–it’s a very specific size for a reason you’ll know soon. It features a Kookaburra on the top and the North Island Brown Kiwi, Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, the Emu, and the Kea on the four sides.

The classic question that accompanies any expansion reveal is, “Does the expansion fit into the core game box?” The answer is, “Not really.” If you don’t sleeve the cards and you have the European expansion, you’ll have enough room between the 2 card trays (core game and European) for all the cards. But the other components in the Oceania expansion won’t fit. However, we are currently working on a big box solution with a built-in organizer designed to hold all Wingspan content (past, present, and future); it should be ready sometime in 2021. It will be just a box and a modular organizer–no gameplay content.

Moving on to the other element of Wingspan Oceania that I’ve previously revealed are the 15 yellow eggs. We discussed the possibility of some sort of giant egg miniatures for emus, but we couldn’t think of a gameplay reason for them, so these are the size of the other eggs in the game. As usual, the color of the eggs is purely decorative, as adding meaning to the color of the eggs would cause huge issues for colorblind Wingspanners.

I’ll be back tomorrow with the reveal of a major component!

 

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  1. Hi, are the player mats in the oceanic expansion double sided like the neoprene mats to work with just the base game and/or European.
    Thanks

    1. Mostly asking because I have two in my big nesting box from somewhere, but dont remember where i got them and a friend only wants to buy the expansion if it has double sided mats.

    2. The player mats in Oceania are single side, as you can’t play Oceania without the core game (which includes the standard player mats).

      1. Hi Jamey,
        So i figured out why I have 2. They were part of the asia expansion. I see you have neoprene mats that are double sided. But any options on getting the board ones so one could get a full set of 5 that fits on the base box better?

  2. Hello! Me and my partner love playing Wingspan. We recently started playing the Oceania expansion pack and got into a very big argument about bird abilities.

    I activated the Tūī’s power to “Copy a brown power on one bird in the forest of the player to your [left/right].

    I decided to copy the predator ability of their Rufous Owl (“When activated draw 1 face-up bird card from the tray with a wingspan less than 75cm and tuck it behind this bird”)

    They had also played a Black-Billed Magpie with a pink ability to “When another player’s [predator ability] succeeds, gain 1 food from the birdfeeder”

    They insisted that they should be able to gain 1 food source because my Tūī copied their predator’s ability. But I maintain my stance that the Magpie couldn’t activate its ability because my Tūī doesn’t have a predator ability, it just copied it

    We would appreciate an answer, because someone owes the other one an apology!!

    1. I’m sorry that Wingspan led to a big argument! When you copy an ability, it’s as if the entire ability (including the label) transfers to the copying bird. So the Tūī temporarily gains and activates a predator ability, which does indeed trigger the Black-Billed Magpie.

      I can understand the confusion of this nuance either way–the copy powers are a bit tricky to understand.

  3. Why weren’t the Satin Bowerbird, Magpie Goose, Powerful Owl, Palm Cockatoo, Kaka, Weka, Takahe, or Blue Duck included in the Oceanian Expansion?

  4. Hello,

    I only own Wingspan Asia and am interested to add Oceania expansion to my collection but not the base game. Is it possible to do so? If so, are there any rule modifications we need to follow when incorporating both the expansions? How does the duet mode work with Oceania expansion added?

    Thank you!

    1. Yes, it is possible to expand the 1-2 player Wingspan Asia with other expansions. There’s nothing special you need to do–just shuffle in the bird and bonus cards, and you can decide if you want to play with the nectar player mat.

  5. Hello,

    At the start of my “gain food” action I have a bird in the first forest location so my action is to gain 2 food cubes after possibly paying a food resource to reset the feeder. All cubes show the same face. I reset the feeder before gaining any food from cubes due to the cubes showing the same face. The new roll shows 5 cubes with varying faces but none that I want. Can I then pay the food resource to reset the feeder again (the one time bonus action on the 2nd and 4th locations) before gaining any food cubes from the feeder?

    Thank you,
    -TH

  6. End of Game confusion: Oceania. Just played for the first time, and the one thing that is unclear (and I haven’t found mentioned in any reviews/videos) is the instruction underneath the nectar scoring on the player mat.

    “THEN ACTIVATE ANY BROWN POWERS IN THIS ROW”.

    Does that mean the nectar ‘winner’ for each habitat gets to do one more activation of brown powers in that applicable row at the end of the game?

    Please clarify, as we are mystified!

    1. Beth: Thanks for your question. Those are just the standard instructions for how to activate a row. The same instruction is printed on the standard player mat without nectar.

    2. Never mind! I compared it to the original card and realized that the language is there, too. So it simply confused us to have the nectar scoring in between the action instruction, e.g., “lay eggs” and the activate brown powers. Duh!

  7. Hi, I’ve had this game for a while but only recently opened up the oceania expansion, the cards feel a little thinner and less smooth than the cards in the main game and other expansions, has anyone else noticed this (just to put me mind at rest that they’re as intended). Thanks, Peter

    1. Peter: Thanks for checking! That’s as intended. For a while we were putting linen embossing on both sides of the card, but we found that they warped less over time if we just put the embossing on one side. It’s the same cardstock as before.

  8. Love the game and the expansion! My family had a specific question about a bird ability. Willie Wagtail activation ability says: “Draw 1 face-up card from the tray with a bowl or star nest. You may reset or refill the tray before doing so.” I refilled the tray, then reset the tray, but there was still no card with a bowl or star nest available. I went to reset the tray again, but my wife and son stopped me and said that I cannot endlessly reset the tray. No available bird card means my turn is over. I interpreted the text as I get to keep refilling the tray until I find a bird card I can take. Who is right?

      1. Hi Jamey,
        I am addicted to Wingspan and have just started playing the Oceania expansion. On the End of Round Goals the tile says rat + fish in food cost of your birds. Can I count the cards that have rat / fish as a food cost?

        1. I’m glad you’re having fun with Wingspan! For birds where the cost is rat or fish (rat/fish), it counts as 1 icon, not 2.

  9. Hello, I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the creators of the Wingspan Game, which is incredible and left me wanting to get all the expansions possible.
    I was, however, waiting to see the Oceania and Asia expansion for sale in a version translated into Portuguese, as the ones I have are in Portuguese. I would like to know if you have plans to produce a translation into Portuguese.
    Thanks for the attention, Luciana Costa

    1. Thanks Luciana! Our partner for Wingspan in Portugal is Divercentro, and we’re happy to work with them on any Wingspan expansion. It does look like they already have (or will soon have Wingspan Asia), but I would recommend telling them directly that you’re interested in Wingspan Oceania so they can consider it.

  10. In oceana there is a new end of round goal. For example the goal is rodent + fish. Does that mean the card played can only have rodent and fish or can it have rodent + fish + invertebrate and still count towards the goal?

    1. For that goal, you’re counting the total rodent and fish icons that appear in the costs on all of your played birds.

  11. I don’t own the original Wingspan but I do have the Asia expansion – am I able to play this solo using the automa cards included in the Asia expansion or is the base game a mandatory requirement for play?

    1. Thanks Michael! Wingspan Asia is a standalone game for 1 or 2 players, meaning that it contains all components necessary for you to play it solo or with another player. In that way, you can add expansions (like Oceania) to Asia without needing the core game.

  12. Hello there.
    I love Wingspan and have all the expansions. I really like the effects of the player board for the Oceania expansion (the icons and changed action as well as nectar stuff), but I really dislike the artwork. It feels too bark and drab compared both to the original boards and the Asia standard side board.
    Would it be possible to make a printable version with the original and/or Asia artwork but with the Oceania layout that we could print out and make our own boards from?

    1. I’m glad you like Natalia’s artwork in Wingspan Asia! We do not provide this artwork publicly, as it would very quickly end up being sold without our permission, which hurts us and the artist.

  13. In the Oceana expansion, do you score the 4th end of round goal before taking any game end actions? We had a case where the removal of eggs in the game end action changed the score of the 4th end of round goal. I said we count the end of round points first, then take game end action, but my husband said to take game end action, then do all the scoring. Who is right?

    1. I always have to look this up myself–it should be on the reference tile, and it’s in the rulebook on page 2. The end-of-round goal is step 3, action cubes are removed in step 4 (I think that’s what you meant, as eggs aren’t removed), and game-end actions are very last in step 6.

  14. Hi!
    I bought a copy of Wingspan recently with the European and Oceania expansions, and it came with only the mats and die for the expansion! Can I still play the base game with this set, or do I need to look into getting the original boards and die?

    Is there somewhere I can get these as “replacement parts” if i can’t play the base game?

    1. Jen: Based on what you’re describing, the seller owes you quite a few components (or at least a partial refund). Or perhaps you’re saying that the only components you’re missing are the core game player mats and the core game dice? If so, that’s not too bad You can definitely play Wingspan with only the Oceania mats and dice. We sell double-sided neoprene playmats on our website with both the original and Oceania mats, and the Asia expansion includes a set of the original dice.

  15. We love playing Wingspan and added the Oceania Expansion to our European Expansion. We noticed that when 2 players were playing basic game, or with expansions, we enjoy the play more by adding another color player cube to each player’s supply; basically, we are giving ourselves one extra turn per round to increase board action when just two players.
    We have also noticed that with the design of the actions of the Oceania Expansion our scores are closer. Sometimes prior we could get some wild wins, and this expansion has leveled the playing field. Nicely done!
    *** Question for the Oceania…on “Round End” cards-discarding food (universal symbol) to tuck cards–does any nectar used for that action get stored on the game board or is it discarded?
    Thank you.

    1. Thanks Karen! That is indeed your last chance each round for spent nectar to be stored on your board, as the next step on the End of Round Reference is the discard any unused nectar.

  16. I’m confused about the nectar rules in Oceania. (Note – I’m using ‘any food’ to represent the multicolored wild food symbol in my question.)

    The first bullet on p. 3 of the Oceania Expansion rule book says you can “spend nectar as part of a bird’s food cost (nectar costs paid with an ‘any food + any food’ = ‘a nectar’” but a little further down it says “you may not trade away nectar in the ‘any food + any food’ = ‘any food’ conversion. Nectar is already wild.”

    These seem to contradict each other, but I’m sure it’s because I’m not understanding it correctly. Is it saying you can use two other foods to equal a nectar but you can’t use two nectars to equal another food type when paying the food cost to play a bird?

    Thx!

    1. Nectar can already be used in place of any of the other foods, so there’s no point in transforming it into a different food. I.E. You can get nectar from the 2 to 1 trade by spending two other food, but there would be no point in spending a nectar in the 2 for 1 trade, since nectar can already fill the role of everything you could get from that trade, and ultimately you’d end up at a net loss from since you’d be spending a nectar AND another food, which would ultimately just vanish.

      1. Thanks! Somehow we completely misunderstood that, agh! Well, at least now we can play this expansion correctly since we’ve been playing the nectar portion wrong for many months. Oops! :D

  17. In the “habitat” analyst data bonus cards, (consecutive birds in “habitat” with ascending or descending wingspans), would the sequence “10”, “23”,”23″,”30″ be worth any points?

      1. Corey, you’re absolutely right! It may not make sense to me mathematically, but it’s in the rules, so that trumps me. :)

    1. When you have one dice left int he bird feeder, can you use your nectar to reset the bird feeder or should that not be allowed because at that point you are using your resource for the sake or using it?

      1. With only 1 die in the birdfeeder, a nectar isn’t necessary for a reset, and so spending it for that purpose isn’t allowed.

  18. when will the French version will be back in stock? it’s currently almost out of stock everywhere in Quebec

    1. That’s a great question to ask the French publisher, Matagot! Feel free to ask them to see if there’s information they can share.

    1. That’s up to our partner in Portugal, Divercentro. Feel free to let them know you want to see those expansions. :)

  19. When playing with the Oceania expansion I have a question about the green heron. It’s power “trade 1 any type food for any other type food from the supply”. If I use a nectar to trade for another food would I put it in the spent nectar spot in that row or do I put it back in the supply?

    1. Jim: Thanks for your question. Since you’re spending the nectar, you would put it in the spent nectar spot in that habitat.

  20. 😭 you guys left out the cheeky pīwakawaka fantail!! So sad, I love how friendly they are. But I love this! My favorite! Wondering if you would also do birds of Hawai’i like the nene and scarlet honeycreeper. And Latin America! Andean cock-of-the-rocks and toucans would be fun, plus more hummingbirds??

  21. I have the core game and both the European and Oceana expansions.

    Could you clarify if the Oceana expansion should be played with cards from the core game? Or is it intended that the Oceana expansion can also be played by just combining the cards with the European expansion?

    Thank you.

    1. Any Wingspan sets can be played by themselves or with any combination. So you could shuffle them all together, or you could just play with Oceania, or you could play with Oceania and the core game or Oceania and Europe, etc.

      1. Thank you for the clarification :-)

        I love Wingspan but wasn’t sure I was playing the Oceana expansion correctly. I used Oceana and European cards just to limit the number of cards whilst using learning the new details of the Oceana expansion.

        I am hoping to get the Asia expansion as a Christmas present :-)

  22. Hello! I have a question.
    Say I have an emu (*), sandwiched between an american woodcock (46cm) and a scaled quail (36cm) in the grassland habitat. If I have the “Grassland Data Analyst” bonus card (Consecutive birds in grassland with ascending or descending wingspans) , according to the rule book I can use the emu as a bird with a 37-45cm wingspan. If I also have the “Large Bird Specialist” bonus card (birds with wingspans over 65cm), can I use the emu for this as well, even though I am already using it as a smaller bird?

    Thanks!

    1. As far as I can tell, * birds have “wild” wingspans for each individual bonus card (similar to how a wild nest can act as multiple nest types for bonuses, goals, and powers).

  23. […] Check out Wingspan Oceania Expansion on the Stonemaier Games Blog […]

  24. Greetings! Absolutely love this game system! My wife and I play every day. We each have 2 boards and play “teams” if you will. Works great! However, after over 1000 games, as teams, effectively “4 players” we are wearing out the dice! I cannot find replacement dice! Suggestions or hints? Thanks!

  25. The Wrybill although looking forward, his beak turns to the left. Would he count as beak pointing left with the round end card?

    1. Here’s what we say on page 11 of the Oceania rulebook: “The Wrybill, although it is facing straight ahead, has a bill that is pointing toward the left side of the card.” What matters is the beak, not the bird’s face, so the Wrybill’s face is indeed pointing left.

  26. Hi!

    Will this be available in Swedish? I have both the base game and the European expansion in swedish so would like to have Oceania in swedish too!

    Regards
    Arvid G

    1. I hope so! That’s a decision for our Swedish localization partner (Asmodee Nordics) and their information to share if they do. I’d recommend that you let them know directly that you want them to make Oceania. :)

  27. As a disc golfer I wonder if you are aware of RPM discs? They are out of New Zealand and use a lot of New Zealand birds for their disc names. I just got a Tui (approach disc), which is also a bird in the Oceania expansion. I thought it was a fun crossover.

    1. I haven’t heard of them, but that’s awesome! I wish we had been into disc golfing when we went to New Zealand in 2019–I bet you have some beautiful courses.

    1. I hope so! That’s a great question for fans of the game to ask the Swedish-language publisher, Asmodee Nordics.

  28. About the Emu power. Other powers allow players to gain a type of food from the bird-feeder “if available” (e.g. Red-bellied woodpecker). The Emu says to collect all seeds that are in the bird-feeder but does not clarify “if available”. Does this mean that if there is only one type of food remaining in the bird-feeder the player can then reset it before collecting the seeds?

    1. For both of the cards you listed you can reroll the dice in the bird-feeder if they are all the same face, if you want to. This is how those cards play when in the online app.

  29. For the superb lyrebird (“WHEN ACTIVATED: Copy a brown power on one bird in the forest habitat of the player to your right”), can this be used to copy a move power (eg Chimney Swift “If this bird is to the right of all other birds in its habitat, move it to another habitat”)? This came up as a discussion in a game played last night and we temporarily ruled no, but would like some clarification for future games please!

    1. As a follow up to this, the chimney swift was in the forest of the player to the right at the time the question was posed

  30. I am going to make a potato chip token for seagulls, and a rubbish bin token for the ibis and crow :)

    1. Maldito has actually made Wingspan Oceania in Spanish, so feel free to contact them. Please ask Divercentro about Portuguese.

  31. Eastern Rosella (Brown power) All players gain 1 nectar, you also gain 1 wheat from the supply.
    spangled Drongo (Pink power) Once between turns: When another player gains a nectar, gain 1 nectar from the supply.

  32. In a recent game, I had the Easern Rosella and Spangled Drongo in my Forest/Woodland. the Eastern Rosella gave everyone a nectar. Can I then claim another nectar myself as other players have gained a nectar?

    1. Can you please share the full text on both of those cards in your question? That will help us answer the question as accurately as possible.

      1. Thanks for posting these abilities above. The Drongo only triggers between your turns, never on your turn, so it would not activate in this case.

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  36. Sorry if these are repeated questions. I have 2.
    1. The Galah says pick another player to roll the dice and gain a wheat and you tuck 2 from the deck. Can you tuck even if the player did not roll a wheat?
    2. The white no powers end of round goal, we assumed it applied to any white card but on further reading it looks like it’s probably doesn’t include birds with a “When played” power. Is this correct?

    1. Good questions!
      1. You can tuck even if the chosen player does not gain a seed.
      2. Here’s how it’s explained the European Expansion rulebook: “The number of your played birds that have either no power, or a “when played” power.” So this counts all birds with either a “white” (when played) power and all birds with no power.

    1. Hi Guy! We only publish the physical versions of our games. Monster Couch (monstercouch.com) publishes Wingspan Digital. They’d be the ones to ask about expansion timelines.

      1. Hello, I’m from Indonesia and I have a friend who used to work at Burung Indonesia (Birdlife Indonesia – burung.org) and he has very nice sketches of birds in Indonesia. He might be able to help you with the Indonesian expansion. Is there anyway I can give him your contacts?

        1. Thank you! We’re only working with Natalia and Ana on art, but your friend is welcome to share their art in the Wingspan Facebook group!

  37. The Eurasian Collared-Dove has a round end power that lets you discard any food to tuck birds from the deck. If I use nectar for that power, do I discard the nectar or place it in the spent nectar pile?

    1. You place it in the spent nectar pile. See the first line at the top of page 3 of the rulebook for future reference: “When spending nectar to play birds, use an “any food” bird ability, or upgrade an action, put it onto the “spent nectar” space for that habitat.”

    1. There should be, yes, though you can encourage the process by telling Asmodee Nordics that you want it. :)

  38. You could use nectar as a sixth source of food, but not consider it wild food and then play the normal game with the original player mats. The chances of getting one of the original 5 food tokens remain the same on the Oceania dice.

  39. In the Australian expansion, when you roll the dice and the nectar/fruit or nectar/seed face comes up, is there ever any reason to take the fruit or seed instead of the nectar, other than close to the end of a round where you risk forfeiting the nectar? Taking nectar from the supply seems almost too easy.

    1. Ron: Nectar, being wild, is generally a safe bet (unless, as you noted, you risk losing the nectar at end of round).

  40. Re: Blyth’s Hornbill, when it refers to a cavity nest, can a star nest act as a substitute as it does in other scenarios?

  41. The Oceania expansion instructions refer to spending/discarding nectar as a random food for a bird’s “ability”, a word that is not used in the basic game. Is it the same as a bird’s “power”, i.e. when you discard a random food to lay two eggs you can use nectar as well? I just want to make sure that “ability” is not something new that we didn’t encounter in the original game.

  42. Hi! Question about nectar/food. I know when playing a bird 2 food of any kind can substitute a specific food, but does that apply to brown powers that state a specific food? Can nectar be used in any situation as a wild? Thank you!

    1. Nectar is wild in most situations (playing a bird, using an “any food” bird ability, or upgrade an action). However, if a bird power is looking for a specific food type, nectar isn’t wild, as it would break theme–for example, if a bird wants to go hunting for mice, it wouldn’t make sense for that bird to hunt for nectar instead. :)

    1. No, Wingspan is a 1-5 player game. The only current way to play with more than 5 players is to buy the neoprene playmat from our webstore and provide your own player tokens. Please be aware that the game will be quite long if you play with more than 5 players.

  43. What happens if you run out of nectar in the supply? In the basis wingspan it says you can substitute food if one kind of food is finished. Does this also counts for the nectar?

  44. Thanks for the great expansion! However, one quick rules clarification – at the end of round four we must discard unused nectar before using the game-end powers. But if one of my game-end powers is to play a bird that requires nectar what should I do? Do I not play that bird? Do I save just enough nectar for that bird? Thanks again.

    1. Hi Erika! You’re correct; you discard all unused nectar before game-end powers trigger. If you want to play a bird with a nectar cost, you can use the 2-for-1 rule and use 2 other foods in place of the nectar.

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  46. Love Wingspan and all the expansions! Questions re: Oceania expansion. When we started the game the final end of round goal was “Sets of three” and my wife had the Australian Magpie with an end of game power which requires that the player discards eggs to invoke the power. Do we determine the end of round winner and the apply the end of game power or does the end of game power change the end of round?

    1. According to the “End of Round Reference” tile that came with the Oceania expansion, Step 4 instructs you to score the end-of-round goal and Step 6 instructs you to activate end-of-game powers. So you’d score your “sets of eggs” goal and then activate the Australian Magpie afterward. :)

  47. Hi,

    Not sure if it was answered before but when do you expect to have Wingspan Oceania available for ordering? I see that it is still unavailable and I would like to order it with the speckled wingspan eggs :)

    1. Thanks for asking! We started the reprint a few months ago, and it should arrive in September/October.

  48. Hello Jamey,

    I had a quick look around here in the comments and on BGG but have not found the answer to my question. On my Dutch version of Wingspan Oceania expansion it seems that there is a difference in font size of the bird ability and bird information. It seems that the Oceania birds all have a smaller font type for both. The indicator of the wingspan is also moved higher with more spacing between the colored band of the bird ability and the wingspan image. Looking at the images posted above it seems that the original version does not have the difference in font size, though it seems that the wingspan indicator is moved upwards in the original version. If wanted I can send some pictures that show the differences.

    Are my observations correct that on the original (English) version the wingspan indicator moved upwards but the font size has not changed between the base, European expansion and Oceania expansion? Is it a conscious decision to change the location of the wingspan indicator and the font size or are these choices or mistakes made by the Dutch publisher?

    Thanks for your reply,
    Iris

    1. Iris: I compared my English cards digitally, and other than maybe the most minor of adjustments depending on the cards, I don’t see any global changes between the two sets. If there’s such a change that impacts your experience of the game in the Dutch version, feel free to contact 999 Games to hear their thoughts.

  49. We’re almost completely out of Oceania expansion scoring sheets (it’s a popular game at our house). Any way I can order another pad? Haven’t found a way on the website at all.

    1. Hi Andrew! We should have more Oceania scoresheets available in the next month or so, but until then, you can use the original scoresheets and include the nectar scoring in any other category (and we currently sell extras of the original scorepads).

    2. I laminate all my paper scoring sheets and use wet/dry erase markers. I know it’s more plastic but it’s lest paper and shipping.

  50. […] So it’s no shock that this supply of meals is likely one of the new sources within the Wingspan: Oceania Expansion by Stonemaier […]

  51. This is a generic expansion comment. If you wanted ideas for future expansions, my group always ends the game wishing we had just one or two more cubes in the fourth round. Somehow make that happen?

    1. Ryan: Good news: We already made that happen! :) In Oceania, there is a goal tile that says, “no goal”. When that tile is in play for the current round, there’s no goal, so each player doesn’t remove an action cube from their supply, giving them an extra cube for every round for the rest of the game.

      1. Oh! I own both expansions and ive seen that tile. I never thought it gave u an extra cube. I’ll definitely use that tile now. Thanks for that

  52. Hi, My family and I just bought the Oceania expansion. We are really enjoying it! However I was wondering if there would be nectar costs in the future expansions (like asia, africa, south aerica). I was really hoping there would be a few, not many but at least like 2 or 3 because its really cool. Are you planning to?

    1. We can’t reveal future plans, but overall, each expansion is intended to function independently of other expansions (and also combined with other expansions). Our thinking is that if there a few birds in future expansions that thematically interact with nectar, it’s possible we may include them with nectar costs (and either an alternative cost or a note in the rulebook that says to discard those birds if they appear when you’re not playing with nectar).

      1. Hello, thank you for your response! Am really excited for what the future expansions hold.

  53. […] pollinators. So it’s no surprise that this source of food is one of the new resources in the Wingspan: Oceania Expansion by Stonemaier […]

  54. Is the next expansion South America, please let it be South America, imagine all the colorful birds available, it will make the game even more beautiful.

  55. Consider with 2 players, when activating the power of superb lyrebird (copy a brown power on one bird in the forest of the other player to your left/right) if the other player has Tui played in the forest habitat, is it a possibility to copy a copy brown power, in which case you can repeat one of your own other brown power?

  56. we got this game yesterday and LOVE it!

    One question: any additional soundtracks or music on the horizon??

    Listening to the music while we play adds so much the game play experience.

    It would be really cool to have additional songs / scores for each expansion pack.

    1. Thanks–I’m glad you like it! The music was coordinated/created by Wingspan Digital developer Monster Couch, so feel free to ask them. :)

  57. Any chance of being able to purchase additional score pads for Oceania? Between the pandemic and my wife loving this game as much or more than I do ( difficult to say this is such an enjoyable game). We will be out of score cards in the next few weeks (never happened with any other game I have owned we play almost every day multiple times). And if not something to purchase maybe something where we are able to get a pdf to print them out?

    Thank you for the hundred plus games that we have played so far. Can’t wait for what’s next with this game.

  58. Hello,
    Last point please: You said the next expansions “will not include nectar” but I suppose it will include some few birds with nectar (on their price or on their power) right? For the few from Oceania not to be lost in the mass?

    1. Yes, it is possible that there will be a few birds in future expansions that have nectar costs. If you’re not playing with nectar and you draw one of those birds, you can simply discard it and redraw.

  59. Me and my husband love the game. We even got it on Steam and play it while we are lazy to set up the game. This week, we got the oceania expansion and so obsessed with it. I found it makes it easier to gain food and play birds. Some birds ‘ power is quite game-changing.

    I do have a question while playing with it. Birds like Grey-headed Mannikin and Gould’s Finch, they have Game end power. The cards say: Play a bird. Pay its normal food cost, but ignore 1 egg in its egg cost. if it has a ‘when played’ or ‘game end power. You may use it. My question is : Can I still use this game end power though i have no extra space on my board? (the habitant already has five bird cards. ) if yes, how much egg cost for the sixth bird?

    Thanks

    1. Hi Jill! You can’t play a bird if you don’t have a spot for it. So you wouldn’t activate its power because you can’t play it in the first place!

  60. Hello!
    Wingspan is fantastic: I can finally play a game in “expert mode” with my wife because it doesn’t last much longer than an hour! I also have a lot of respect for your courage to face all the daily questions on your sites! So I hope you will forgive my very respectful question:

    I love Oceania and its new game board but a number of us regret the overabundance of nectar, also resulting in the scarcity of poor fruits and the strengthening of the already very strong ravens (which we want to continue playing) . We apply some small “house” rules to compensate but concerning the next expansions: Are you going to continue in this way where the nectar dominates everything or are you going to try to moderate their importance (knowing that some players will have all the expansions but without Oceania)?

    Thank you very much in advance!
    And again: Well done!
    GG

    1. Thanks! I’m glad you enjoy the game. Each expansion is its own entity, so any other expansions we make won’t require you to own Oceania (and thus won’t include nectar).

      1. TY for your (very) fast and efficient answer.
        I myself am an (amateur) game “designer” and I may have just recently found a potential publisher: So I know the immense efforts you need to publish your games.
        Keep the faith & Long live boardgames!
        GG

  61. For the Green Heron card (trading food), if you use nectar, does the nectar token you trade go to the supply or to the player mat as when “spent”

  62. A question about the Galah bird. Do you automatically get to tuck 2 cards? Or do you only tuck cards when they reset the birdfeeder and there is a grain available?

    1. Yes, the Galah has two separate statements that are unrelated to each other. One possibly benefits another player and one definitely benefits you.

    1. European, definitely–it’s designed for the original player mats. For Oceania, yes, but only if you aren’t playing with nectar.

  63. Hello Jamey, while playing Wingspan the other day, we noticed a difference between our printed Wingspan Oceania Expansion Appendix (i.e., that came in the box) and the version of the rules on the Stonemaier site.

    A player was going to play the Southern Cassowary – WHEN PLAYED: Discard a bird from your [Forest] and put this bird in its place (do not pay an egg cost). If you do, lay 4 eggs on this bird and gain 2 [Fruit] from the supply.

    In our printed Rulebook, the supplemental text in the Appendix states, “You must pay the food cost of the cassowary, but not the egg cost. You may play the cassowary in an empty space, but then you must pay its egg cost and you do not lay eggs or gain fruit.”

    On the Stonemaier website for the cassowary, the supplemental information in the Appendix has the above two sentences plus an additional (second) sentence that states, “The discarded bird’s eggs, cached food, and tucked cards are all discarded with it.”

    We assumed the supplemental text for the cassowary on the Stonemaier site was the latest version. Is that correct? Are there other known Errata for the Oceania rules/appendix?

    Thank you for any clarifications you can provide.

    Stan

    1. Hi Stan! This is not errata. Nothing is incorrect, but we added an additional sentence after people did not understand the full implications of “discard.” The appendix doesn’t add any rules; it just explains them. When discarding a bird you will always discard its eggs, cached food, and tucked cards. Small changes like this pop up from time to time, but your rulebook is completely correct.

  64. Any plans for expansions that will let you play with more players? Our game group is 6, so we never get to play this one :(

    1. Currently no, but if you buy a neoprene mat from our webstore and use some cubes or tokens from another game, you can easily play Wingspan with 6 players right now! :)

      1. Are the 2-sided neoprene mats being shipped now? I ordered one today for just this reason, and it says in capital letters that it is preorder. I’m not in a huge hurry to get one, but I just wanted to know about how long I should expect to wait. I love this game by the way.

  65. I’m in love with Wingspan and am looking forward to any and all future expansions.

    Any tentative plans for a storage solution that can hold the base game and all expansions? The Aviary? I’ve seen some homemade options online, but would love an official Wingspan version.

    1. Indeed, we’re working on it–I should be showcasing the first prototype in the Wingspan Facebook group in a few days.

  66. Quick question for clarification on “[food1 + food2] in food cost of your birds” round goal tiles. I know your rulebook lays it out relatively well, but we’ve had a discussion/debate after our first round of playing oceania.

    If it’s the “fruit + seed in food cost of your birds” goal. It just means count any fruits or seeds on played birds. It doesn’t mean you need a bird card whose food cost requires both like Cassin’s Finch (fruit+seed), for it to count right? (the + symbol is throwing us off).

    My interpretation is: Cassin’s finch (fruit + seed) would count as 2 in your total for the fruits and seeds. And the California Quail (invertebrate+seed+seed) would also count as 2, Wood Duck (seed+seed+fruit) would count as 3, Orange-Footed Scrubfow (seed/fruit) would count as 1?

    Thanks. Love the game, have been telling all our friends to get it, and has been truly wonderful during the pandemic.

    1. It’s just saying to count all of those icons on your played bird costs. So if you have 5 fruit icons and 8 seed icons, your number for that goal is 13.

  67. When activating the Brown Falcon’s power do birds with a wild food cost qualify, or would only birds with the specific food type shown qualify?

    Thank you for your help!

      1. It says look at a card from the deck. If the food cost of the bird contains an insect (caterpillar worm thingy) or a rodent tuck it beneath the Brown Falcon.

        Thanks for the help, Jamey!

  68. Hi there! Question regarding the Superb Lyrebird ability:

    If the Superb Lyrebird copies the Eurasian Nuthatch ability, can the cached food be used on subsequent turns?

    It caused quite the debate today, so, we’d be super glad to be cleared on this!

    Also, we love the game and the expansion! Can’t wait for the next one!

    Cheers!

    1. Cached food can’t typically be spent, but for birds that have a special ability that lets them spend cached food (or copies of such birds), you can spend it. So the answer to your question is yes. :)

      1. Thanks for such a quick reply!

        The doubt was mainly whether the ability the Lyrebird copied would continue to other turns. I thought it cached, but then would lose the ability to use the cached food on the other rounds. The wife was right, as usual :D

    2. Jamey is correct, though I’ll add one thing. The Lyrebird (and Tui) copy a bird’s brown power, and if that power might have effects that happen later, they can only happen within that turn. So at the end of the turn in which the Lyrebird copies the Eurasian Nuthatch, it’s no longer considered to have the Nuthatch’s power and can no longer spend its cached food (unless it copies the Nuthatch again that new turn). :)

  69. Rule clarification if possible please.

    The Australian Shelduck allows a player to reset the tray and take a bird with a specific nest type. From the wording it isn’t clear whether you can only reset the tray once or if you can reset until a bird with that specific nest appears.

    Personally I assume you can only reset it once, but it still comes up in conversation.

    Thanks for your help!

  70. Love the Oceania expansion! We are a little addicted. When will we be able to order extra score pads?

    1. We are a little addicted as well, what we did was stick 8 empty scorecards on a piece of paper and make copies of it to fill in.
      Otherwise we would have probably already have emptied the score pad already.

  71. Hey, thank you so much for this beautiful game! Such an incredible amount of thought has gone into each aspect of Wingspan- it really is on another level compared to any other boardgame I have ever played! We have both the European expansion and the Oceania one, and are waiting with anticipation for the next installments! One question, when playing the birds that allow for a second bird to be played in a particular habitat, are you allowed to play two of those cards in a row, and then one more bird, so three birds in total for the one turn?

    Please say no. :)

    Thanks again, Olivia

      1. Thank you for the quick response, Jamey! Not happy about it, but you are the official adjudicator and so now the game must go on!

        Cannot speak highly enough of this game and all expansions- recommend it to anyone and everyone :)

  72. Hey so when activating Galah, does the other player have to gain a wheat for you to tuck 2 cards or do you still tuck 2 cards even if there is no wheat rolled?

    1. No, the wording of the card does not make the tucking power conditional on the success of the first power. So you may tuck regardless of the result.

  73. Hi wanted to buy the Australian version but see that’s not available to May but you have the Oceania expansion version. Is this the the full Australian version with updates. If so I will order

    1. Tina: There’s the Wingspan core game, the European expansion, and the Oceania expansion. There is no “full Australian version.” If you’d like to play with the Oceania expansion–which includes many birds from Australia–you’ll also need the Wingspan core game.

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  75. If a card says “discard” a food token and you discard nectar, does it go back to the supply or on your “spent” space?

    1. Yes, if a card power says to discard an “any food” symbol, and you choose nectar to discard, then it is effectively spent and goes into the appropriate spent nectar space. Before Oceania existed, “discard” was shorthand for “spend,” so it means the same thing in this context.

  76. Hi, we have an argument here, do we need to reset bird feeder after each round or not? Since in the end of round reference it only says about bird tray.

    1. Nope, just use the instructions on the reference tile–you do not reset the bird feeder at the end of the round.

  77. Hi, I have a question about discarding the nectars at the end of the round. If it’s the end round 4 and you have a nectar, do you have to discard them before completing the end of game powers? I wanted to use mine but my siblings made me throw them out so I couldn’t do my end of game powers :’(
    Thanks!

    1. Your siblings are right. The rulebook is quite clear: At the end of the game, complete the end-of-round steps, then then activate any «game end» bird powers (…). Step two in the end-of-round steps is «Discard any unused nectar (…).

    2. Hi Erica! Check out the end-of-round reference tile to see in what order these steps are taken. Step 1 is “Use round end powers.” Step 2 is “Discard any unused nectar.” And a later step allows you to use game end powers, after discarding nectar.

      So you won’t have any unused nectar left to spend on game end powers because it’s already been discarded (but you can use nectar on round end powers).

  78. Considering buying Wingspan Digital for Switch. Does anyone know if the Oceania expansion is available for the digital game as well?

  79. Hi I have a question about Pesquet’s parrot. Is the wingspan listed a typo? It is listed as 30 cm but this appears to be a much larger bird.

      1. Is there any update on this? I play the game with an ornithologist and he insists it counts as a large bird and not a passerine.

  80. Hi All, I’m a little confused by the set up rules in the Oceania expansion.

    Step 3D says:
    “Add the nectar tokens to the food supply. Each player selects 5 starting cards/food from their 5 dealt cards and 5 standard food (not including nectar) as normal. Then, all players gain 1 nectar.”

    In the base game it was my understanding that you took 1 of each of the food types then discard as necessary depending on how many cards you keep.

    Reading the Oceania quoted above does that mean we now get 5 extra food?
    Or is it the same as before but after you’ve picked your cards you get 1 nectar?

    1. It’s the same as the core game: You get 5 cards and 5 food, and then you select 5 cards/food from those 10 things. In addition to those 5 things you keep, you get 1 nectar.

  81. […] had 170 bird cards. The European Expansion added another 81, then the recent Oceania Expansion included a further […]

  82. Hello, I have a question about spent nectar. My friends and I have been playing it a lot recently and spent nectar for birds can only be placed in your habitat if that bird specifically has nectar as a cost. For example, if you wanted to play a bird that costs 1 worm and you pay 1 nectar, it does not go into the spent nectar space. Is this correct?

    1. Jason: Spent nectar goes into the habitat even if you use it as a wild food (to pay for another type of food cost).

  83. About the bird on the cover, why is there a kookaburra on the cover but not in the game itself? Am I missing a bird card or is this bird simply not implemented? I’m just wondering because the images on the last expansion game and the original were always part of the bird card too.

    1. The same Kookaburra is in the game, just with different art. The first illustration Ana made of this bird didn’t have open wings, and we wanted the bird to show off its wingspan for the cover, so we commissioned a second illustration of the same bird.

  84. As an Aussie, and an owner of Wingspan and both expansions, let me just say “Thank you” for the game, but even more for the wonderful donation to WIRES. Many Australian animals, including many birds, suffered in the fires last year and it is a splendid and thoughtful move to have made that donation.

  85. With pink power cards the rules say they activate once between your “own turns”. Does this mean that if I am the last player, my pink won’t activate until I have had a turn? Does once between turns carry through to different rounds? Until noticing the phrasing of “own turns” I thought the pink would activate once between the first player’s turn and the last player’s, in that round.

    1. Sarah: Thanks for your question. You’re just looking at your own turns. So, you take a turn, then player B takes a turn, and the round ends. A new round begins, and player C takes a turn, triggering your ability. It’s still between your upcoming turn and your previous turn, so the ability triggers. Then you take a turn. Player B then takes a turn, and they trigger your ability. And so on.

    1. Good question! You can only score one category in a bonus card. So you either score for 1 set or 2+ sets, not both.

  86. We just played this card that says: “When played, reset the birdfeeder, then, for each type of food in the birdfeeder, gain 1 of that type.”
    The some of the dice showed a nectar / berry. Our question is are those both two different food types? In other words, does the person playing that bird get a nectar and a berry if there are two dice showing the nectar and berry die sides?

    1. That slash means “or”. Normally you’d gain one of those food types, but given the specific card you mentioned, I believe that you count both types of food. You may want to check the Appendix entry for that bird in the rulebook, though (I don’t have the rulebook in front of me).

  87. Hi! We enjoy the boardgame very much and were wondering if a French version of the Oceania expansion has been released or when it will be available? Sorry if the question has been asked already, but I couldn’t find any info about that. We can’t wait to try it!

    1. Hi Janika! Thank you for your interest! We only publish the English version. I believe Matagot is working on a French version, but those details are for them to release.

  88. G’day,

    First of greetings from Belgium. Trying to figure it out, I just started my third solo game with the new expansion, after buying it yesterday. Now the Lyrebird is one of the three birds in de bird tray and I was wonderring how I can use this card in solo-mode, since the Automa has no specific cards I can choose to play from.

    Love the twists in the expansion so far! Great Job, Elizabeth!

    Enjoy the holidays.
    Simon

    1. Hi Simon! You’re correct, if you played the Lyrebird on your player mat and then later activated that bird while playing solo, there would not be any opponent birds to copy. I’m glad you’re enjoying the expansion!

  89. Hi, can you explain the Kea’s ability more precisely? When played: You can draw 1 bonus card. Then you can discard food to gain additional cards and then keep 1. So, does this mean we get just 1 bonus card or can I keep that first 1 and 1 more from the additional bonus cards. Thank you.

    1. Here’s how we say it in the appendix: You first draw 1 bonus card, then decide how
      many additional cards you want to draw and discard the corresponding amount of food. This is a one-time decision. Among all the bonus cards drawn using this bird’s power, you keep only 1.

  90. Hello, I think that “solo” play is a little better and add “cooperative vs automa” mode is very good. Hoping, in the next exps, to play vs multiple Automas and more active actions during gameplay by them. Big box project will be with an expansion or will be alone? Thanks and Merry Christmas.

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  92. Jamie – loving the expansion. The game end bird powers add a lovely element, and I think the upgrades to the player mat are great and break up some of the places the base game gets stuck.

    My one concern in my 4 games I have played is that the nectar feels like the entire, sole focus of the game. If the bird feeder rolls nectar, it’s a race to get it. the Nectar bonuses give a ton of points, especially in 2 player games. Whoever has the best ability to get nectar seems to be in control. It almost feels as if nectar is way more ubiquitous than it should be.

    Since it is wild, its presence makes playing birds significantly easier. It almost feels like the other food types are more trivial. It doesn’t take a few turns to get the right food to play a big bird – just grab some nectar.

    What are your thoughts on this? We have even been considering replacing one or two of the Oceania dice with dice from the base game to reduce the “nectar flood”.

    1. Thanks Joe! My thoughts are that we spent a lot of time designing and developing the game, and we believe it is best played as printed. Nectar is powerful, but it’s also transient, as it disappears from each player’s supply at the end of the round.

      You’re welcome to play Wingspan in the way that brings the most joy to you.

      1. Jamie – thanks so much for the reply. Maybe I just need to get more games under the belt and get more used to how the nectar plays. Or maybe I’m just scared by the power it has!

          1. Perhaps it’s a flaw in way I play, but I rarely want to hang on to food – I get food (read: nectar) this turn to spend next turn, so losing it at the end of the round is rarely a concern. I love your idea about swapping in some vanilla dice – that lets you tune the game to your liking!

    2. Hey Joe,

      We have swapped two of the Oceania dice for the standard dice, and find that creates a nice balance! Our other game variation, (when playing 2-player), is if we draw on the end-of-round goals, we keep the extra action block and play the next round!

  93. Can I use the Superb Lyrebird and Tui to copy a move bird power like the Chumney Swift and move to another habitat?

        1. Pierre: I don’t have the card in front of me, but I’m pretty sure the “copy a power” birds can only copy powers of birds in the same habitat.

          1. I think you mean the repeat a power birds. I’m talking about the ”Copy a brown power in the forest of a player to your left/right”.

            So my original question is if the Lyrebird or Tui can copy a Chimney Swift and change habitat even though both Lyrebird and Tui only can be played in the forest.

            Since I asked I have found a ruling by Joe Aubrey on Facebook that they can.

            But since this has been my first firsthand communication with you. Thank you for many wonderful games and I look forward to many more.

          2. Pierre: Indeed, thanks for clarifying–that’s my mistake. Posting the text on the bird always helps for these types of questions. :)

            Yes, you and Joe are correct in that you can do that. The only time you need to consider the habitats where a bird can be played is when you actually play the bird. After that, various abilities like this one and copying a swift ability could allow you to move a bird into a habitat where they could not originally be played.

      1. Do any of the “copy a brown power” birds live in multiple habitats? I’m assuming for them to copy the “switch habitats” power they could only move to a habitat where they are eligible to be played? On a side note, I think a good round end power could be too sweetie the places of two birds. They would have to follow standard habitat placement restrictions.

        1. Lauren: When you use a migrating bird’s ability, they can move to any habitat (even one where they couldn’t have originally been played). I like that idea for an end-game ability!

  94. Congratulation on the fantastic new expansion set!

    I have a question about bird costs and nectar. Just to make sure I understand the rules correctly: is it true you can substitute any specified food for nectar when playing a bird?

    I’m a little confused because the Rufous-Backed Honeyeater and the Grey Shrikethrush require one worm OR one nectar. That seems superfluous. Why specify the optional nectar if that’s always the case?

    Thanks!

    1. Leo: You might be confusing nectar with the “any food” icon. When you see the “any food” icon on a bird cost, you can use any food (including nectar) to pay the cost. When you see the nectar icon, however, you must pay nectar.

      Nectar itself is wild, so you can use nectar in place of other specific food types. Like, if a bird costs 1 rodent to play, you can pay 1 rodent or you can pay 1 nectar.

      1. OK thanks. In that case it seems the extra “or nectar” cost of the two mentioned birds would be superfluous — this led to some confusion in this household :)

        1. For future readers: Stonemaier’s Joe Aubrey answered me elsewhere and explained:

          “The real answer is the bird eats invertebrates or nectar in real life, and within the context of the expansion’s mechanics, leaving off nectar would misrepresent what the bird eats in real life. So it’s just a thematic touch.”

          1. Also, let’s say you have a worm in your supply but you don’t have any nectar. You could still play the bird.

    2. I agree it does not make a difference for playing the bird but it does for bonuscards. It does not qualify as a bird that only eats worms.

  95. In the rule book it says:
    The [RANDOM] symbol always includes nectar. If you find that this rule makes the Chihuahuan Raven and Common Raven in the base game too powerful, remove those
    two birds from the deck while playing with the Oceania Expansion.

    Does this mean you are obligated to take nectar for each [RANDOM] symbol you see and are not allowed to choose for one of the other 5 food types?
    As nectar is being discarded on the end of each round…

    1. No, it’s just saying that the “any food” icon includes nectar among the other foods from which you can choose to pay for an “any food” cost.

      1. Thanks for the explanation. It has been translated a bit more vague in Dutch and as English isn’t my native language that wasn’t helping me either…
        But this does, so thanks. Makes total sense now! :)

    2. Any word on when this is hitting retail in the U.S.? I pre-ordered it from my FLGS in Austin and was wondering what are the chances my wife and I will have it under our tree for Christmas?

  96. Why do I see other people getting pre-orders 2 weeks ago and I have not even heard anything about my preorder being shipped? I live in the US, could that be it? Or is this because of a priority given to the $10 club members? Is there any word on when expansions will be shipped for the rest?

      1. Also, Daniel, in general, fulfillment centers have capacity limits–these are people shipping packages one by one, so not every order is going to get shipped at the same time. Our fulfillment centers are shipping as fast as possible, and you will receive your order soon.

  97. My wife had the Laughing Kookaburra and I had thr Black-Billed Magpie. When she is successful in gaining food can I then gain a food from the birdfeeder?

    1. Yes, the Laughing Kookaburra has a predator action. If an opponent activates it and it succeeds, your pink power will trigger because the predator action succeeded.

    1. We plan to have 1 expansion for each continent. So far we’ve covered North America, Europe, and Oceania.

  98. Might you relay my enthusiam for a particular bird family to Elizabeth? One of my favorite birds is the Little Bustard from the European expansion. Well, I just discovered there is a Great Bustard and I thought it would be a great inclusion in the Asian Expansion as well as the Arabian Bustard of Morocco for the African expansion. It could be a whole family of Bustards!! Love the Oceania expansion, though I’m still trying to adjust my strategies to the seeming abundance of resources.

    1. Thanks for being a fan, Lauren! I’ll let Elizabeth know to keep the bustards in mind, but I know it’s very difficult to narrow down the list of birds and make everyone happy. :)

        1. Aga: That isn’t the type of thing we reveal in advance, but we appreciate your interest, and when we get to Asia, we’ll consider the hoopoe.

  99. When an Oceania bird requires a nectar when playing on board, can you replace the nectar with two other resources?

    1. Yes you can. You can pay two other food to pay a nectar food cost to play a bird, but you don’t place a nectar on the “spent nectar” space on your player mat.

  100. Galah Automa (without Hoard)
    Do I reset the bird feeder? Or does it not happen because it’s the Automa?
    I haven’t used the Hoard option yet.
    Thank you
    C
    Apologies if already answered.

    1. Hi Cheryl. Galah will not reset the feeder when playing against Automa. This is true regardless of whether you are playing with the Hoard variant.

      If playing with the Hoard variant, Automa will always get a token for the wheat (regardless of whether there’s one in the feeder).

  101. Got mine this month and I’ve had lots of fun trying out the new mechanics! Will this, the European expansion, and any future expansions also get a Steam release? I’ve been having lots of fun playing online with my friends and I want to be able to play the expansions with them too.

    1. Yes, Monster Couch (the digital developer) is working on adding expansions. In the meantime, Tabletopia has both expansions.

  102. Hello!
    A question about the future expansions please:
    You said they are all gonna be playable alone with the base game. So if there is an “Africa” expansion for example, I can mix it with the base game WITHOUT the Oceania expansion so without the new board right? But what if there are African birds eating Nectar and what about the Nectar in general if I use the futur expansions only with my base game so without Oceania? TY by advance – GG

    1. Our overarching expansion philosophy is that no expansion will rely on any other expansion content and that most expansion content will integrate seamlessly with other expansions.

      While it is possible we will include a small number of nectar birds in future expansions, we’ll keep them to a bare minimum, as it would violate the core principle I mention above.

      1. TYVM for your fast answers! I’m a Terraforming Mars fan with my buddies but Wingspan allows me to play an “engine builder” with my wife and daughter … And they beat me!
        GG

  103. My preorder just arrived and I was like a kid in a candy shop! This looks amazing and I am so excited about the new mechanisms and boards. I also love how I am now getting versatility in how the game plays so I can choose which pieces to incorporate. I bought realistic 3D printed resources from an etsy shop so my only issue is going to be getting nectars that are similar to my other resources. Any chance you guys could work on getting a resources pack together with one of your partners the same way you have with viticulture and scythe?
    Either way, I love this game and your products as a whole which is why I own the majority of your major titles and their expansions. I am always so impressed with your craftsmanship and quality and Wingspan might be the most beautiful game ever created!
    Thank you for creating this remarkable game and I look forward to the future continental expansions.

    1. Thanks Peter! For all of our games, we’re happy for third-party accessory creators to create their own version of resource bits–they do that completely independent of us. I think you’re likely to see Meeplesource, Top Shelf Gamer, Board Game Geek, and other creators make their own versions of nectar soon. :)

  104. Game arrived yesterday and we immediately sat down to play after reading new instructions and shuffling in the new cards. We went for the whole enchilada. Great expansion,new food and bonus cards really add a lot to the game. We are both at high risk for Covid so play lots of games while staying in. When one of us asks the other “what do you want to play”, we both laugh cause we know what the answer will be. Love,love,love this game!!!!

  105. Hello,

    First off, you’ve done an amazing job with this game. I’m a huge board game fan, but for the last 6 months (since we got Wingspan) this has basically been the only game we’ve played. Just got my Oce-expansion and can’t wait to play it this evening!

    I just have a question about the Ruff’s power. If you for example have 2 card in your hand which you decide to tuck to draw two new cards, are you then allowed to tuck one of the two new cards and draw a third (which would make you tuck and draw a total of 3 birds, but still only have 2 left in your hand at the end)?

    Finally, thank you so much for this game and I can see your passion since you seem to manage to answer basically every comment you get in here. Thank a lot, games like these makes the evenings a bit more fun even though we’re living in rough times :-)

    1. Thanks, Justus! I’m glad you’re enjoying the game. :)

      The Ruff says this: “Round End: Tuck up to 3 from your hand behind this bird. Draw 1 for each card you tucked.”

      These are two separate statements Tuck up to 3 cards and then when you’re done tucking, draw cards equal to the number you tucked.

      1. We figured as much, the question came up around the table one day and thought it sounded kinda interesting!

        Thanks for a quick and accurate answer, as always!

        Take care!

  106. Hello,

    2 close questions please:
    I love your game and the EE but really dislike the new OE board and food mechanism so:

    1) Can I play the core game + EE + OE with nectar (so new dice) but without the new board?–or-
    2) Can I play the core game + EE + OE without nectar (so base dice and without the 17 birds in Oceania that have nectar in their costs/abilities) and still without the new board?

    TYVM – GG

    1. Here’s how I say it in the FAQ:

      “If you play with nectar, you’ll need to use the new player mats, Oceania birds, and the Oceania food dice. If you don’t play with nectar, you can play with either version of the player mats, the original food dice, and any birds (except the 17 birds in Oceania that have nectar in their costs/abilities).”

      1. TY for the answer Jamey.
        But what about the percentages % ?
        Imagine someone in love with your original board and who will play all your next extensions on it and without the Nectars and Nectar birds: I suppose the % on the Bonus card will be wrong then right?

        1. I haven’t done the math, but in a deck of hundreds of birds, removing a few won’t affect the percentages much.

          1. TY Joe! Beautiful game whatever!
            Don’t worry about few guys like me who like this and not that: I know this is an overall success and you deserve it! This is just normal with expansions: I don’t know any board game geek who loves all the expansions of his favorite game lol!
            (While writing to you I see a Blue Tit eating my seeds outside my window).
            Take care and keep the faith!
            GG

  107. Ok, so happy my Oceania expansion arrived. We’ve been playing it every night since! Again, great job guys.

    I have just one query. I hope I can explain my question properly! So up until now, when we’re playing here at least, when a bird has an ability that says “gain a seed from the birdfeeder if available”, we’ve taken this to mean we can only take the wheat dice faceand not the seed and invertebrate dice face. Were we doing this incorrectly? Should we have been allowed to also take the multiple food dice face? Obviously with the new expansion you are allowed to do so as there’s no other way to gain wheat from the birdfeeder.

    Apologies for rambling 😂

    1. Thanks for your question. Indeed, when you use that ability, you can choose any die in the birdfeeder that shows the seed icon (and then gain a seed token from the supply).

  108. So excited to play this expansion! Wingspan is a household favorite for us. I was curious what the average ship time for the expansion has been in the US?

    1. We’re just a few days into preorder fulfillment, Jordan, so if you ordered now, you would probably get it in early December.

      1. Dang:/ okay thank you for your response! My wife and I adore your games! Scythe and Wingspan have both become staples at board game night.

  109. Oceania expansion arrived today. Great!, Had first game with new expansion.Great!! Looking forward to many more.
    Thanks.

  110. […] all time on BoardGameGeek’s database of over 18,000 games. Brendan is looking forward to the Oceania expansion, which includes birds from the Australasian region, including the ‘Bin Chicken’ – […]

  111. Hi, I have received my copy of Wingspan Oceania, looking forward to play it :). I would just like to say thank you for the quick delivery and turn around for this. Was only expecting it to land early December so the fact that it is here in mid November is very impressive, Thank you.

    1. Thanks Paul! Shipping will take us a while, as our fulfillment centers have a lot of units to ship, but I’m glad this was a pleasant surprise for you. :)

    1. By no means do I wish to be rude but ostriches are native to Africa, however the emu or one of the cassowaries are more likely since they are native to Oceania.

      1. And you can see all birds in the appendix of the Wingspan Oceania rulebook, which you can download from this page.

  112. Oceania expansion landed today in our mailbox in Switzerland! Thanks to the authors for this amazing game!

  113. Would Horn, Ruff, Hood, Bone, or Skin be candidates for the Anatomist goal? Would there ever be a NSFW version that would allow for Bust, Nut, Tit, Cock, and Pecker? (just kidding)
    It would be cool to have a new goal that counted other animals in names, like Bee or Fly.
    Thank you for a great game!

    1. Officially, only the words on the list count! But you’re welcome to make any houserules you’d like. As for other name-based bird cards, they’ve turned out to be the hardest to deal with when making expansions and translated versions of Wingspan, so I don’t predict that Elizabeth will create any more name-based bonus cards.

  114. I just became a Champion. I got the $10 off the expansion, but it is still charging me shipping. What do I need to do?

    1. Hi Brandon! Both of your BGG threads were answered, but just in case someone doesn’t see those, I’ll answer your question here too.

      As mentioned at the Champion signup page, all Champions get $10 off their order. We started offering upgraded shipping options, which initiated this change from “free shipping for US Champions” to “$10 off for all Champions.” You can read more about your Champion benefits here: https://stonemaier-games.myshopify.com/pages/stonemaier-champion

    1. We can do this on the same day that the order is placed, but after that the order is in our fulfillment center and can lead to human error if we try to update it.

  115. […] rules for the new expansion are available to download on the Stonemaier Games […]

  116. When is the African expansion coming out? Looking for some Toucans and Penguins.

    Also, the same exact game but with dinosaurs. I’ll just leave that here, along with a promise of all of my money.

        1. That’s the plan. It’s not something I want to commit to up front, and we are considering smaller promo packs for extinct and endangered birds, but yes, the plan is to make expansions for the 4 remaining continents and that’s it (though we’ll continue to reprint and support the game and expansions).

          1. I always liked that the Toronto Zoo made ‘Mandalasia’ a separate continent. It makes sense too from a zoological perspective.

            I vote the same approach for Wingspan. There’s simply so many birds from SE Asia through Indonesia. Then again, same argument for a ‘Polynesia’ continent.

  117. After the Champions’ copies have shipped, will the rest be shipped on a “first ordered, first fulfilled” basis? I put my order through right at 9:30, so I’m hoping it will be among the first to go out. :)

    1. Aaron: Here’s how I explained shipping in yesterday’s e-newsletter:

      Shipping: Orders will start to ship from fulfillment centers in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia in mid-November (Champion orders ship first in each region; see shipping chart). The arrival of Oceania at our fulfillment centers and the subsequent shipout will be cutting it close for delivery to some customers before Christmas. The fulfillment centers will do their best, but their capacity is limited, and courier speeds are slower than usual during this pandemic holiday season. The exact time when you place your order has no impact on when it will be shipped, as fulfillment centers organize orders into batches to optimize shipping for all Champions in their region, followed by all non-Champions.

  118. Oceania expansion released at 1.30am Eastern Australian time! The website was down for an hour and I drifted back to sleep but managed to pre-order a copy a bit after 2.30 then get properly back to sleep. Looking forward to receiving it.

  119. Im confused about shipping. Do you have the games yet in your warehouse? If I am a champion when will my order delivery window be?

  120. […] new Oceania expansion, which is scheduled to hit retail shelves on Dec. 18, costs $30 to preorder and promises to arrive […]

  121. Even woth the FAQ response on the new playmat Im still a bit confused.
    I just ordered 4 of the original neoprene playmats. Can you use these with Oceania?

    1. Jamey has said previously that there will be new mats that will have both mats on the front/back. The mats in the store only have the original mat on them.

  122. I was just able to order it. Hooray! I tried to post this earlier, but post not showing up…. click on Shop in the upper right corner, then Online Store, you’ll see it there. Doesn’t seem to be showing up on the pre-order page. Good luck!

  123. I just got it! Go to main stonemaier page, click Shop, then online store. You should see it there. Good luck! I tried for nearly an hour before I finally found it there. Doesn’t appear to be showing up on the pre-order page itself.

  124. I ended up selecting the Buy option for Wingspan and once it takes you to the shop page if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see the Oceania Expansion listed. Once I clicked it I was able to see it in the shop area of the website, add it to my cart, and complete checkout.

  125. I’ve been trying since 9:15 and just got back to this page but I don’t see a button that says “Preorder from Stonemaier”. Have I missed it?

  126. Still no button to pre order. I saw one other comment. Its 11:26 is there an issue with the release for the pre order

  127. Has anyone seen the preorder button? It is till not live for me. I have been trying to reach the site for over an hour

  128. No luck getting the page to come up until now (10:25 CDT). If there is no “preorder” button, does that mean that all the preorders are claimed?

    1. You’ll click on a button on this page that says “Preorder from Stonemaier”. It will take you to our Shopify store.

  129. My worse nightmare is that this sells out within the hour as I’m in a meeting when it’s finally released. We have more or less played Wingspan daily since the day we got it (June 2019) and I’m so excited to play this new expansion

      1. good, so I am charges in my local currency. Good to know as its coming from UK I want to pay in £ and deliver to Germany.My pension goes in my UK bank but live in Bavaria.

  130. If there I order the game and it is getting shipped from really nearby, is there an option for in person pickup when it is ready? Thanks!

    1. Amy: I appreciate you asking about this, but our fulfillment centers don’t offer local pickup options.

    1. If you can’t get a copy from our preorder, I would recommend that you order it from a retailer for the December 18 retail release date. If you can’t get either, we’ll have more available in March/April.

  131. Is there a limit to how many copies one individual can purchase? It would be very frustrating if a few “entrepreneurial” individuals decided to buy up all the copies then raise the price.

    1. I don’t know for sure, as that’s a completely separate operation from Stonemaier Games, but I bet they will. :)

      1. Hah! No way it won’t sell out. Wingspan is easily my #1 favorite board game. I’ll be buying a few of these expansions (Christmas is coming) myself.

      2. Would it be possible for you to send out an email or make a Facebook post when the pre-order quantities are getting low?

        1. I think they may go pretty quickly, Lauren. I would say that if you’re interested in preordering from us, proceed to do so as soon after 9:30 am tomorrow (CDT) as possible.

          1. Oh, I will, for certain. I’m just thinking about others that may be unaware how quickly it might sell out.

  132. I am planning on pre ordering the Oceania Expansion and was wondering if I will also be able to add some expansions for Scythe as well to the overall order?

    1. Hi Josh! You can order anything together with Oceania during the preorder, and they’ll all ship when Oceania is available.

  133. Hello, I saw the comment below from Jamey that we can use the new bird cards from this expansion without the 17 that require nectar if we do not want to play with the nectar token. My question is can we still use those cards when we do not use nectar and just treat that cost as a wild food token (so a player can pay anything they want for it). I understand that would lessen the value of the bird card since without nectar there will be no bonus for spent nectar tokens, but otherwise, would this be acceptable to do?

    1. Akshay: You’re welcome to try any house rule you’d like to try, but it’s not really something we can comment on, as we haven’t playtested anything like that.

  134. Hello. If i preorder here on the 28th will I automaticly get shipping from england if im from central europe? Am asking this because shipping costs

    1. Yes, our shipping rates are based on shipping from the closest fulfillment center to you, and that’s always the fulfillment center we’ll use for each region (i.e., Spiral Galaxy in the UK for any address in Europe).

  135. I don’t have the original wingspan, will I be able to get a combo of the expansion and the original shipped to Australia as part of the pre-order? I had been hoping it would work as a stand alone game but if it can be ordered as something playable then that works too!

    1. Yep, we have Wingspan in stock in our fulfillment center in Australia (along with everything on our webstore), so you can order it with Wingspan Oceania.

  136. Dear Jamey,

    Do you know if this expansion will also be released in Dutch? I really hope so! If so, do you have an indication of when it should be released?

    Kind regards, Eveline

    1. Eveline: Indeed, it will be available soon in Dutch from 999 Games. You can ask them about the exact timing.

      1. I just bought some a couple weeks ago and I’m pretty bummed they are kind of outdated now. Is there a way to exhcange them or do I need to try and sell them locally?

        1. Thanks Michael! They’re not outdated–the original mats are still completely relevant. Here’s the corresponding question/answer about this in the FAQ:

          Are the original player mats now useless?

          Far from it–please keep your original mats! The Oceania mats are simply different, that’s all. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion (or future expansions), you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats. The original mats have considerably less iconology on them, making them more welcoming for new players. Also, whenever we create a new expansion, we must operate under the assumption that a significant number of people who buy it will only have the core game. So while new expansions will hopefully function with the Oceania playmats, they’ll be designed primarily for the original player mats.

  137. Just wanted to ask a question out of concern, being based in Australia a 9:30 am CT time puts this at 1:30 am our time, is it likely that i’m going to miss out if i don’t wait up all night to place a pre-order or do you have different allocations for those in different time zones. i just feel it seems a might unfair if people in Australia miss out simply because everything gets sold out before we even get a chance to take a look.

    1. We have different quantities for each fulfillment center, so it’s not like US customers can buy out the Australia quantities. But you raise a good point about timing, and I’ll explore a solution

      1. Kia ora, When you say quantities from each fulfillment centre, is there a separate one for NZ, or is it rolled into Australia?
        Hopefully these are separate as this expansion is going to be doubly popular at our end of the world.
        Thank you

      2. Jamey, have you considered an Oceania-friendly launch time? As an Australian Stonemaier Champion – newly minted for the occasion – I’d like to be in with a fighting chance to get mine early. Can’t wait! :)

  138. Cannot wait for this! So excited! At what time will it be available the 28th? Also what will be the price? Thank you

  139. Hello! So excited for this expansion – Wingspan has been one of my favorite quarantine activities :) Out of curiosity, at what time will the preorder go live on October 28th? Will there be a virtual queue on the day of launch? Thanks!!

    1. Typically preorders go live around 9:30 am CT. People can then just show up and place a preorder (there’s no queue).

  140. I don’t know if this has already been answered (I can’t access the Facebook page), but will the double sided mats actually be printed, and if so, will they be available to order with the expansion?

    1. We are going to make the double-sided neoprene mats, but they won’t be available to order until they arrive at our fulfillment centers in 3-4 months.

  141. Hi
    Very happy to hear the news! Great reviews as well!
    When can we expect a French version from Matagot?
    Thx
    Pierre-Olivier, Montréal, Québec

  142. Is it possible to play with just the new Dice, Food, and Bird Cards without the new board and extra stuff? Not sure I am a fan of all the extra stuff.

      1. Hmm ok. Not sure why this Expansion is so mechanic heavy. Hopefully it isn’t bad for the game as worry it will be. Thanks for the reply.

        1. The shipping cost will change according to how heavy your package is, but you’ll see the charge before you pay at checkout. :)

  143. Usually I just wait quietly until games reach my remote quarter of the world, but now I can’t. How does this preorder work? Do you only ship to UK, USA, Australia and Canada or can you ship to other countries as well? Say, Iceland?

    1. We actually ship *from* fulfillment centers in those countries to almost all other countries. So, your order would ship from the UK to Iceland sometime in November.

  144. Will the cost be revealed on the day of the preorder or will we know a few days before? Trying to figure how much to set aside for it, if I’m able.

  145. Are the new mats coming with this game neoprene? If not I’d be one mad customer at having bought the old ones.

    1. The mats are cardboard–we don’t include neoprene mats in any version of Wingspan.

      Here’s a related entry in the FAQ:

      “Are the original player mats now useless?”

      Far from it–please keep your original mats! The Oceania mats are simply different, that’s all. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion (or future expansions), you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats. The original mats have considerably less iconology on them, making them more welcoming for new players. Also, whenever we create a new expansion, we must operate under the assumption that a significant number of people who buy it will only have the core game. So while new expansions will hopefully function with the Oceania playmats, they’ll be designed primarily for the original player mats.

      1. Hi there,

        First of all, huge fan of SM games and all you do! Some feedback from one supporter’s point of view, I’m really disappointed in the player mat situation. After investing in the neoprene player mats to have a core mechanic of the new expansion be useless with them is disheartening. Especially considering the timing of the mats’ release seeming to coincide with the development of Oceania. It may have been an easier pill to swallow when first purchasing the mats to know different ones may be needed with future expansion(s). Hindsight is 20/20 though I guess. Thanks for reading!

        1. Hi Brady! Thanks for your feedback. To be clear, we did not know Oceania would include an alternate player mat until long after the neoprene mats were printed, and I think it’s worth noting that Wingspan fans repeatedly requested the neoprene mats from us. Additionally, this new player mat in the Oceania expansion does not completely replace the old mat. The Oceania mat is more complex and perhaps not the best to teach new players. And the original player mat is still useful for any combination of play, including North America, Europe, and 4 additional continent expansions yet to be released.

          We do plan on emailing everyone who ordered the previous neoprene mats with an exclusive deal to purchase the new double-sided mats when they’re available. But we don’t have the details hammered out for that so I don’t have any other information to reveal yet. :)

          1. Thank you for the response. I appreciate the explanation. That’s an awesome idea to offer a deal to those of us who purchased the original mats. Very generous! You can count me in. :)

            Take care!

        1. Here’s a related post I made on the Wingspan Facebook group recently:

          Today I received a sample of something I’d like to share with you and gauge your interest. If possible, please read this post before responding to the poll.
          First, for those who have already purchased neoprene mats from us, if we make new mats as described below, we’ll make sure that you have a special discount.
          Second, the original mats (cardboard and neoprene) are still important to keep! The Oceania mats are simply different, that’s all. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion (or future expansions), you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats. The original mats have considerably less iconology on them, making them more welcoming for new players. Also, whenever we create a new expansion, we must operate under the assumption that a significant number of people who buy it will only have the core game. So while new expansions will hopefully function with the Oceania playmats, they’ll be designed primarily for the original player mats.
          Third, it’s unlikely that we’ll introduce another twist on the player mat in a future expansion…but it is possible. If it happens, the original and Oceania mats will remain relevant.
          Fourth, some of you might be wondering why you’d even want neoprene player mats. It’s purely a matter of personal preference: Some people like the cardboard mats, and some people like the feel and flexibility of neoprene (which is like a mousepad material). Some people even just buy one mat so they can play 6-player games of Wingspan (using spare cubes as player tokens).
          The sample I received is of a double-sided neoprene mat: One side with the original mat, and the other side with the Oceania mat. It is as big as it can be and still fit in the box, so there’s no room for double-stitched edges (but it seems very durable). It doesn’t grip the table like the original mat, but I also don’t think it’s at risk for sliding around all willy-nilly. Because of all this, if enough people are interested, we wouldn’t plan on making more units of the original neoprene playmat.
          We would only make the double-sided version. If you’d like us to make this neoprene mat, please indicate your desired quantity on this poll. We’re looking into packaging options that will allow us to price it around $9 each.

  146. Is it possible to play with the new birds, but without the new player mats? Really excited to have all the new birds, but the new mats seems unnecessary complicated.

    1. Marc: Here’s my extended answer in the above FAQ:

      Can I play this expansion without the Wingspan core game? Is it balanced if I mix and match various components?

      All of our expansions require at least some components from the core game (action tokens, eggs, bonus cards, goal tiles and board, etc). However, in terms of bird cards, you can mix and match as you wish: Oceania and core, Oceania and European, etc. With smaller groups, you could even play with only the Oceania birds or only the European birds. Or you could do what I’m doing and shuffle all birds together. The various mixes are balanced (including bonus card percentages, within a percentage point or so).

      If you play with nectar, you’ll need to use the new player mats, Oceania birds, and the Oceania food dice. If you don’t play with nectar, you can play with either version of the player mats, the original food dice, and any birds (except the 17 birds in Oceania that have nectar in their costs/abilities).

      1. I played only with the European expansion when we first got it and found it not really playable on its own. There were no brown powers only the new during a turn and end if round bonus cards so we mixed with the base game to be more worthwhile

        1. Marc: Just to clarify, there are nearly 40 birds with brown powers in the European expansion (not “no brown powers,” as your comment suggests).

          1. really!! guess it was a bad shuffle as we played two games without any coming so then mixed with the base game. To be honest I never looked at the cards beforehand.

  147. Thanks for explaining ‘nectar is wild’ concept in the commen, but I’m just wondering why this is not reflected anyhow on the new player mats? Why not display nextar -> any graphic near the 2 any -> any graphic? Is this something which could be implemented in the next revisions? This is not a problem remembering for me as someone who played Wingspan already, but that would be hard to remember for new players because there is no reference anywhere on the nectar wilderness. Thanks.

    1. Thanks, Ilia! The “2 any -> any graphic” is next to the Play a Bird section because it only applies to that action (you can’t do it during any other action). So we don’t want to confuse anyone by putting a nectar reminder right there. In testing we found that no one had trouble remembering that nectar is treated differently in the game, so hopefully your experience is similar.

  148. Thank you for sharing the rulebook in advance. The expansion looks great! Can’t wait to play. I had a few questions on the rules regarding nectar. Apologies if this has already been addressed in the comments,

    Questions:
    1) The secont bullet point on the top of page three includes “Nextar is not wild for bird abilities”. Can you please clarify and/or provide an example? I’m thinking about the humming bird which has a power to take a food cube, which could possibly be nectar.

    2) In the same section on the top of page 3, it states you may not trade away nectar in the 2 of any food equals one of specific food conversion. Does this mean you could not trade a nectar and a worm to equal a fish? But you still can trade a fish and a worm to equal a nectar?

    3) Flightless birds. If you have a bonus card for birds with wingspan greater than X cm or less than X cm, the flightless bird qualifies for either? What if you have two bonus cards, one that is for greater than X wingspan and one for less than X wingspan. Would a single flightless bird count towards both goals?

    1. Hi Matt! Here are the answers to your questions:

      1. If a bird ability requires you to, for instance, discard 1 [seed] to cache two cards, then you must use a [seed]. You can’t use [nectar] for this or other bird abilities.
      2. That’s correct.
      3. The flightless birds always function as wild cards. That means they could satisfy multiple conditions (even multiple bonus cards). In other words you’ll never have to assign a value to the asterisk and then remember it for any length of time.

      1. “Does this mean you could not trade a nectar and a worm to equal a fish? But you still can trade a fish and a worm to equal a nectar?”
        You wouldn’t need to trade 1 nectar and 1 worm to equal a fish; As the nectar’s wild, you’d just use the nectar as a fish. Remember that you can only do this ‘2 to equal 1’ when playing a bird.

          1. It’s important to remember that you don’t actually trade one nectar for one of any food; you spend nectar in place of a food. It’s the same with the 2 for 1; you don’t actually get the 1. Instead, you spend 2 in place of 1 when you pay for a bird to be played. You never get the resource and you can only do this when you play a bird.

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  150. Which direction is the Common Loon’s beak pointing? (For the uninitiated, there is a juvenile sitting on the back of the adult, and their beaks are pointing in different directions! Also I think this may be the only card art with more than one bird on it?).

    Oh and are we looking at this from the bird perspective or from our view down to the table? And what about those birds facing square on – I think there is at least one.

    I know these are extremely minor questions but I am excited for this goal tile!

    1. The Coomon Loon is already answered in the Oceania rulebook.
      “The Common Loon (from the base game box) has 1 bird facing in each direction, so it qualifies for both goals.”
      The birds that are not pointing left or right (face-on) are also answered in the rulebook, as is the Great Crested Grebe and Wrybill examples.

      1. And I would assume that the picture on the goal tile shows which direction on the card the beak has to be pointing (otherwise it really complicates things!).

  151. I’m not quite sure what “nectar is wild” means. For example, please clarify the statement “You can substitute nectar for any of the 5 other food types when playing a bird” (Page 2 of the Oceania Rulebook). Please provide an example when playing a bird (i.e., identify a specific bird and its cost and how nectar may be used as a “wild” food type).

    1. The Hooded Warbler costs 2 invertebrates to play. If you have 2 nectar, when you play the Hooded Warbler using the “Play a bird” action, you can pay either 2 invertebrates, 1 invertebrate and 1 nectar, or 2 nectar.

      1. Thank you, Jamey. A good example is always helpful. This makes nectar even more powerful than I originally thought.

    2. The Puffin costs 3 fish. You can instead pay 2 fish + 1 nectar or 1 fish + 2 nectar or 3 nectar. Those doesn’t apply to food specific bird powers. So if you need to pay 1 seed to tuck a card you can’t pay a nectar instead, you need to pay the seed.

  152. One thing I would love to have is a comprehensive sheet of paper that list all birds who fulfill the requirements on Photographer, Cartographer, Anatomist, etc. :) I know there exist fan-made ones, but I would still love if the game came with an official list that we could lay on the table for players to look at. It would have to be updated with ever expansion.

    Wingspan is a fairly simple game, but these bonus cards are the only reason we ever have to open the appendixes.

    1. That’s probably something they would look at once all of the expansions have been released. Much like the Scythe combined rule book.

      Maybe the big box will include a combined rule book, first player token and a bag for the end of round tiles.

      1. Along with some tokens to place on pink-powered birds to show when a particular power has been activated during turns. In a large game with a lot of pink-powers, it can sometimes get difficult keeping track of powers that have been activated already.

  153. Thank you for the interesting new systems for the Automa. And the new naming of the co-op mode (Automarazzi) is just genius. In these times I really think all games should have a solo mode. Besides solo I play this a lot with my wife. This is actually a game that I used to “lure” her into the hobby :) But I love it too. OK, is not the heaviest but it has a very nice and extremely appealing theme which is accompanied with some of the highest production designs board gaming can bring. And the large amount of bird cards makes this enjoyable for many replays. So just take my money and ship the box :)

    1. I hope so! We’re still aiming for October 28, but we’re waiting on an accurate arrival date for the freight shipments. It’s a busy time of year for freight shipments.

  154. Thank you for sharing the core rulebook and the appendix with all the birds in this Oceania Expansion. I have noticed that some bird families are much more represented than others and the absence of some well-known species (such as the weka or the kagu) caught my attention. Sorry if anyone has already asked, but could I ask you to share something about your general criteria in selecting the birds that will be part of the expansions? Have you ever considered doing an expansion with only threatened birds, maybe according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/)?

    1. Elizabeth researches interesting birds in each region, starting with a massive list and narrowing it down based on birds she thinks are interesting, feedback from books and articles she reads, and input from Wingspan fans in that region.

      Each expansion is based on a different continent, but it is possible that we’ll make promo packs in the future with themes like the one you described.

      1. Thanks for your kind reply. That would be amazing :) I believe it could be an added value to the enormous and extraordinary work that Elizabeth and all of you have already carried out.

      2. Saw the iconic crown pigeon of new guinea isn’t in this expansion. I’m curious why it was edited out. Maybe there could be a promo pack for fan-voted birds? Have any promo cards yet been be made, apart from what is found in the retail game?

        1. There are no official promo cards for Wingspan at this point, but yes, a possibility for a future pack is one that’s voted on by fans.

    2. Alas with only 85 bird cards to cover over 2000 species in the Oceania region, there are a lot of interesting species that have been left out.

      I think it would be great to have a mini expansion for each continent except North America and Antartica to bring the number of cards up to 170 (NA already has 170 and Antarctica and surrounding Islands would require using almost every species to get to 170). That way we can play Wingspan Oceania, or Wingspan Africa etc, or choose to mix and match continents / regions. As the outrageously successful Wingspan has shown, not every card has to be unique for powers. It’s more art and quick facts, which obviously cost money.

      Whittling down the list of birds is certainly a tough job. PNG, which has amazing birds faired worse than NZ or Aust.

      I’m sure the job will be just as difficult for Africa, Asia and South America.

  155. I really appreciate the clarification the appendix gives on the bird powers. I wanted to ask a couple of clarification questions: About the Cockatoos’ powers. Do the players draw whatever food type they want from the supply, or is it the food type you select that all players must gain? Maybe that clarification could be added to the appendix?

    The Wedge-Tailed Eagle and Butcherbird both cache food and tuck cards on successful hunts. This seems more powerful than some of the other hunters. Is their base point level lower or food cost higher, to balance out this powerful strength?

    For the Superb LyrebirdT-u-i, can the power copied be the “move to other habitat”? Or are they a single-habitat bird and thus it’s a non-issue?

    Thanks again for being so active on this message board!

    1. Thanks Lauren! Could you please out the full text on those birds? It saves us a significant amount of time when answering these card-specific questions. :)

      1. Sure thing!

        “Cockatoos: WHEN ACTIVATED: Tuck 1 [card] from your hand behind this bird. If you do, all players (including you) gain 1 [FOOD TYPE] from the supply.”

        Does this mean all players choose any food or must the food type be declared by the player who activates the card?

        “Wedge Tail Eagle & Butcherbird: WHEN ACTIVATED: Look at a from the
        deck. If its wingspan is [size here] tuck it behind this bird and cache a [mouse] from the
        supply on this bird. If not, discard it. Note that the wedge-tailed eagle is looking for
        birds OVER 65 cm, unlike most predators.”

        These hunting powers seem more powerful than some of the other hunters. Is their base point level lower or food cost higher, to balance out this powerful strength?

        I just realized that the “repeat a brown power”, if chosen to be re-activated, would apply to the bird with the power, not to the bird with the “repeat power” action, so ignore my 3rd question.

        Thanks!

        1. Thanks Lauren!

          For the Cockatoo, each player decides which food type they want to gain.

          For the Wedge Tail Eagle and Butcherbird, yes, there are balancing elements on them, most notably the cost to play them and that they can’t hold many eggs.

        2. Actually the two cockatoos specify which food the players get. Major Mitchel’s is a [seed] and the Sulphur Crested is a [nectar]. The appendix is written that way to cover both powers, but the birds are specific.

  156. I just realized when playing on Steam that the round end ties have not been calculated the way it seems they are described. Reading the new rule book, I wanted to get clarification on that rule, both for nectar and for the end of round goals:

    It states: “If two or more players are tied, add the points and divide them evenly, rounded down. For example, two players tied for most nectar would each receive 3 points. Two players tied for second most nectar would each receive 1 point.”

    At first I thought the rounding down was a typo because if first place is 5 points, why would you round 2.5 down to 2 on a tie, wouldn’t you round 2.5 up to get 3? For first place are you adding 5+2 to get 7 and rounding down, but for second place, you’re only taking the value of 2 on it’s own? I think this could be explained better, because it doesn’t say “only add the values, divide in half and round down for 1st place ties” it simply says that if two players are tied add the values and divide evenly, rounded down.

    I feel like it would be much simpler just to divide the bonus in half and round up without adding the points for the other places. This is how we play the game in my group and it seems like the point breakdown is roughly the same. Am I grossly misunderstanding how this works? I am an avid gamer and not easily confused by this sort of thing, but this scoring method as I am now understanding it, seems more complicated than it needs to be.

    1. Lauren: “For first place are you adding 5+2 to get 7 and rounding down, but for second place, you’re only taking the value of 2 on it’s own.” That’s correct! :)

      1. Can that be clarified in the rules? Perhaps stating that the values added are only for the current place and all placements below it, but not above.

  157. Thank you for such a great game and keeping us entertained with awesome expansions.
    Does the french version will be available with pre-orders late October ?

    1. We only sell the English version, but you can ask Matagot about their plans for the French version. :)

      1. Thank you for your quick reply. Indeed, checking with the correct distributor is always a good idea ;)

  158. Very excited about this expansion! I’d love to see a list of all birds included – or knowing whether any of these four are included: Orange-bellied Parrot, Swift Parrot, Pacific Baza, Nankeen Kestrel. Loving the Wedge-tailed Eagle art!

    1. Check out the appendix in the rulebook, which is now linked on this page. It includes all birds in the expansion.

  159. I am sure this has already been said, and from the file it is from July so most likely fixed…but in the nectar section it talks about the plants giving off the sugars to pollinators, then in the second paragraph it talks about the eucalypts plant, but third sentence there is a typo, “Other insects excrete excess sugar from tree sap as substances known as lerp and honeydew.” it says insects excrete excess sugar from tree sap, shouldn’t this be plants?

      1. Numerous insects, notably aphids, etc produce honeydew. It is excess sugary solution from sucking up sap from plants. This honeydew may be ‘milked’ by ants, birds etc.

        So I agree that insects is not a typo

        1. I think the confusion is where it states “other insects” when no insect was earlier referred to, so “other” is actually a typo. The sentence should start with “Insects” or “Some insects”.

          1. To clarify, even though the previous sentence has the word insect in it, the subject of the sentence is the eucalyptus.

          2. To clarify again, in the proceeding sentence it says “When some eucalypts are attacked by insects, they exude a sweet substance called manna.” Since the eucalyptus is the subject of the sentence, the word “they” would seem to refer to the eucalyptus plant, but I believe it is actually referring to the insect. I think this is the main point of confusion.

            If the sentence was worded: “When some eucalypts are attacked by insects, the insects exude a sweet substance called manna.” the next sentence could say “Other insects…” because the insects have become the subject of the second sentence phrase.

            Hope this makes sense.

  160. Wow I can’t wait for this expansion. We played 3 games of Wingspan last night and I don’t think I will ever tire of it. We have played many games over the last few years and from our point of view nothing comes close to the fun that we get from Wingspan.

    I want to make sure I don’t miss out on Oceania as I need it for myself but also for my son as a Christmas present. I have seen some game shops in Australia accepting pre-orders. Is my best chance to not miss out on the game to order directly from Stonemaier?

    1. Hi Kevin! Assuming we don’t have any freight shipping delays, yes, ordering from us should be the best way to get the Oceania expansion earlier than anyone else.

  161. I’m so glad Australia was your 3rd continent. I posted a comment 9 months ago on Amazon that I wanted an Australian expansion. Now I am hoping Africa will be the 4th. Maybe with purple or green powers. Thanks for all the effort put into this and future games.

  162. Absolute massive fan of all Stonemaier games and absolutely frothing over wingspan. I’ve been teaching kids I babysit, parents, family + friends and I am yet to hear a negative review. I’m up to game 83 and have loved every second of it.

    Really loving the daily dose of the Design Diary, it’s good to wake up to over here in Australia as you write it around midnight our local time 🙌.

    This question is from my dad who absolutely loves the incorporation of New Zealand birds as he grew up over there. He’s just wondering how come some birds that are only present in New Zealand have Australia and PNG shaded in?

    1. Ryan: Thanks for your comment! We actually shade the entire region for birds–if it’s found in Oceania, the entire region is shaded, even if it’s only found in one specific country within that region.

      1. That’s what our theory was, cheers for your speedy reply. You’ve got a keen bunch of about 20 people who I play with who love the daily design diary who I relay the information to. Good on you guys for all your hard work that go into such quality games.

  163. Suggestion for a brown bird action: switch location with any other bird (both birds must be able to live in their new habitat).

    This would allow to retroactively optimize your bird order if your tactic changes.

  164. The little penguin seems a bit overpowered caching a fish for *each* fish in the food cost for the 5 drawn birds. The power might be more reasonable at caching a single fish for each drawn bird that eats fish or even just cache a fish if at least one of the 5 has a fish. It’s 7pt value with a wild nest type holding 2 eggs seems too much with the current power.

    1. The chances of drawing multiple fish on a single turn are not as high as you would expect. Of the 261 cards in the Base+EE+SS there are 44 cards with at least 1 fish in their cost. If the game state was 248 cards remaining in the deck, say 42 of which had at least 1 fish on the chance of drawing 1 card with at least 1 fish on from 5 draws is 61%. This a actually very similar to the chance of rolling 1 fish when rolling 5 dice (which most of the time you don’t have the opportunity to do of course, usually its less).The chance of drawing the single 3-fish card is only 2%. The OE may change the percentages a little? But activated a lot on top of 7pts+2eggs+wild nest, yes its strong.

      1. Actually the expected value of the cached fish is around 1,1 for each activation of the power (assuming the ratio of birds with fish cost do not change significantly during the game). This is double the amount of the best case scenario of earlier birds’s fishing power (since they can get at most one fish per activation, while the penguin can get all) and arounf 3-4 times as high as the average expectation (because the dice used can be from 0 to 4, never 5 as you calculated the percentage).
        So the penguin will replace the puffin as the most sought after bird in our games.

    1. We don’t plan to retroactively update any bird cards based on mechanisms in expansions, especially since only 30-40% of people even buy expansions. However, nectar is wild, so you’re welcome to spend nectar to play hummingbirds when you’re using the Oceania expansion.

      1. At least we have the wildness. I might house rule them or be stubborn and only use nectar for humming birds.

        1. I feel similarly. I may print off a nectar sticker to stick on the two hummingbird cards, over the wild symbol.

  165. Hi,
    Small question regarding the latests new birds. In particular the Pukeko. Is adjacency defined somewhere in the rulebook? Asking because it could mean only in the same row or it could be adjacent in either row or column?

  166. Most of the birds we have seen so far are from Australia and New Zealand. Does this expansion have any birds from Polynesia? Wondering if the Nene or Tahiti Monarch will be in this new set. I love Wingspan and will get pre ordering this right away!

  167. Will there also be a new card tray in this expansion? Lot’s of fans sleeves the cards and with this expansion the sleeved cards won’t fit in the two card trays.

    1. mine are not sleeved and fill all three card trays with the Europe cards as well. Thats where they are supposed to go are they not?

      1. I have the base game and EE in one tray, without the bonus cards. I’m not using the tray that came with EE yet. If you don’t sleeve, you’d be able to fit OE and 2 other expansions of a similar size in the other tray.

        I’m going to shuffle all mine together and rotate the trays between games then do a big shuffle all together.

        1. we deal from all three piles in the tray and after each game the discard pile is split and put to the bottom then shuffle each pile vert 4-5 games as so few cards are used with two payers

        2. I also keep all the bird cards from the base game and EE in one tray, unsleeved. I keep the bonus cards in a separate baggie and everything related to the Automa in its own baggie. When playing multiple games, especially against the Automa, I face the discards from the game in a different direction from the unplayed cards and I keep using the unplayed cards until I have played through them all. This way I can play through the whole deck over multiple games before reshuffling and every bird gets a chance to be played. :)

          I often sleeve cards for games, mostly if I am worried about the cards getting damaged in play. This usually applies to party games or games where cards get handled more, or passed around (I sleeved my entire CAH deck). Because wingspan is such a calm game and be the people I play with really care about birds, there is little to no risk of a card being damaged. Also, the texture of the cards is nice.

  168. Love the wrybill, both for it’s name, illustration and unique power! We’ll have to balance playing it early in the game to strategize for what’s on the bonus cards vs. playing it later to have more cards to choose from (if there’s a specific one you’ve been looking for).

  169. I absolutely and unconditionally love Wingspan. I purchased a copy of the very first edition as a gift for my husband, but I myself became the obsessed one with the game. I personally appreciate all the new features you’ve included in this exciting Oceania Expansion, except for – just nitpicking – the fact that now we have some specialized nectarivores, the hummingbirds, that does not explicitly require nectar as a food source. And several African species in the Nectarinia genus are nectarivores as well; take the case of the beautiful scarlet-tufted sunbird that is associated with the giant lobelia in the Rwenzori’s mountain grasslands. But I understand they are a minority and respect your choice – and need – of maintaining expansions independent one another.
    A great thank you for supporting and keeping this amazing project alive.

    1. I whish I would have asked for it some months ago, but I hope we will find the almost flightless kagu amongst the other stunningly beautiful bird cards. Are you also covering the birds of New Guinea such as the super-black superb bird-of-paradise? If not, I hope you will consider adding it in a future Southeastern Asian Expansion :)

      1. While we can’t feature every bird in every region, we did include a bird-of-paradise in the Oceania expansion.

        1. I’d buy an expansion focusing on Polynesian birds, Birds of Paradise, or both. Far and away my two favourite categories, although Central America or Galapagos would be fun too. As much as I’m looking forward to all the novelties withiin Oceania, smaller expansions with just cards & tray is fine too.

    1. Yes, it’s pointing left. It’s one of a few birds we call out in the rules that are facing forwards, but their beaks point to the right or left.

  170. Hi, When playing with the Oceania Expansion, due to the special yellow powers and this new nectar tokens….is it recommended to only use the bird cards that come in this expansion? Or will be Ok to mix with the original set of cards, or with the European expansion?
    All about this expansion looks great. Looking forward.
    Cheers!
    Marcos

    1. Just for purposes of shuffling, we recommend you choose 2 different sets and play with them. I’m going to shuffle all my cards together into one giant deck, though.

      1. When you say 2 sets, does that mean for example, only using Oceana and European without the core set? Or is it two sets + the core set?

        1. Right, you could use Oceania and European or Oceania and core game or European and core game. Or, if you’re like me, all of them. :)

  171. Will the new Yellow abilities effect old bonus cards like having different color power in several columns? Will the additional yellow power make this easier to achieve?
    Will the expansion effect the probability of cards displayed on bonus cards(the percentage of card with body parts in their names for example)?

    1. Yes, it’s a new color, so it it applies to that bonus card. Expansions have minimal impacts on the percentages–Elizabeth takes them into account when designing new cards.

  172. It would be nice if we could get a nice drawstring bag in a future expansion to aid with randomising the goal tiles :)

  173. If I have two bonus cards measuring wingspan (65 cm), can the same flighless bird trigger both, or do I have to choose a fix measurement which is used for all bonus cards?

    1. Flightless birds always count as wild. There’s no need to remember what it represents from one scoring condition to the next. In other words it would count for all scoring conditions it could qualify for.

  174. When the Africa Expansion is out and we got the Ostrich, the Roadrunner can eat that giant bird. Meep, meep, nom, nom, buuurp!

  175. Re: The beak pointing left/right round end bonus tile, can you give an advance official ruling on which way the great horned owl’s beak is pointing? I’m leaning slightly to the right, but it also does that thing where the stare follows you whichever way you tilt the card, so I’m too scared to guess…

    1. It’s absolutely pointing straight forward. If a bird’s beak is pointing to the left or right, there’s no nuance about it. Though we have included a list in the rulebook of birds whose beaks are neither pointing left or right, and it’s filled with owls (including the Great Horned Owl).

    1. Thanks for giving me a good laugh. 😂 That will definitely be an interesting new part of the game… 😂

  176. Ideas for yellow powers:
    – Activate this bird’s row
    – Activate any three brown powers
    – Lay up to 6 eggs on a single bird
    – Get all eggs used to play birds in this column refunded
    – Attempt every hunt
    – Discard every egg on this card then tuck twice as many from the deck
    – Tuck a card from your hand behind every bird with a tuck power
    – Cache up to four food of a single type from your personal supply

    Also surprised there isn’t an end of round goal competing for most types of food cached
    Alternatively there could be a bonus card where you get two points per type of food cached (“Hoarder”)

    1. James, very nice suggestions. I liked the end round goal, the “hoarder” and the power that you tuck a card behind every card with the tuck power (but I would change that. Tuck a card behind every card with the tuck power, but take the cards from the deck, not from your hand)
      Cheers.
      Marcos

  177. Are there other flightless birds in the have or european expansion already? I may make it a house rule for them to all be wild, for consistency. The only one I’m thinking might be is the Puffin.

    1. Puffins fly! According to Google they can fly up to 55 mph.
      Good question though. I was wondering the same thing, but I don’t think there are any flightless birds in the game so far..

      1. There are no flightless birds in the game yet (until Oceania).

        But you are absolutely correct, Puffins do fly – they are certainly not flightless birds and no case can be made for them being flightless! Just watch them off the Scottish North Berwick coast :)

      2. In my experience, puffins are very difficult to photograph well in flight, perhaps one of the most difficult I’ve encountered.

        Not only are they fast, they fly very low on the water and are surprisingly very agile. Most of the time I caught them in the frame it was luck.

  178. when does todays post happen?
    considering the Kakapo gets a run, im dead keen to know if Australias flightless parrot-The Night Parrot gets a card.
    Jez

    1. I thought the night parrot could fly – just not particularly well. I also read that it has poor night vision so keeps flying into things.

  179. Does the Oceania expansion have blue powered cards as well as the new yellow powers? So excited for this one!

    1. It does not. While we’re open to some overlap in the expansion abilities, we didn’t have any to add to this set.

  180. The Kakapo is in the wrong area on its map? It has Australia highlighted but not New Zealand. Or am I seeing things?

      1. I see PNG up top and Australia, but not New Zealand (which is that comma looking bit to the bottom right of Australia).

      2. Is there any chance we could get a more detailed photo of one of these maps? Especially for birds such as the Kiwi from New Zealand.

        1. The map just shows the entire region. If a bird is found anywhere in Oceania, the entirety of Oceania is highlighted.

  181. So thematically I can see why the Kakapo’s wingspan is ‘*’. But what does this mean when the wingspan is referenced in game? Mechanically speaking?

      1. I’m curious why the asterisk couldn’t have been placed after the number, so we still got the bird data. I’ve always thought these cards were akin to baseball cards, but for birds, so the omission of any stat makes it feel a little incomplete, but maybe I will learn otherwise tomorrow. Looking forward to the new reveal!

  182. I hope there will be a bag for the goal tiles as well! So you will now can draw randomly goal tiles from the bag. I miss this game piece in the game now. Is there any change such bag will be in this or later expansions?

    1. I think if the next expansion just consisted of bird cards, bonus cards, goal tiles and a bag for the goal tiles, a lot of fans would be really happy. That said a bag may seem overkill for something that is only used in the setup.

    2. I have a supply of drawstring bags that I use for miscellaneous components for games, and have goal tiles for my copy of Wingspan in one of those. While a bag themed to the game would be nice, it’s not too hard to get something that will do the job. If nothing else, it might be worth checking around the RPG dice section of your FLGS to see what they have.

    3. I recommend the WingMate app. It will randomly select tiles for you, and is in general an awesome app. :)

    4. My wife and I start each game by randomly placing three rows of goal tiles above the round numbers. The bottom row are the tiles that will be in the game. Then, starting with first player, we each get to eliminate 2 tiles starting with the bottom row.. Bottommost tiles for each round get placed on the board for the game. Controlled chaos.

  183. LOVE the creativity with the bonus cards and goal tiles! So much versatility. I love adapting my strategies to the bonus cards and goal tiles. Really looking forward to any new development from the mind of Mrs Hargrave. I just purchase another game of hers which I’m looking forward to playing. :)

    1. They’ll be available to everyone at the same time. But yes, Champion orders always ship first within each region.

  184. Hi all. Thank you for including a link to my Bin Chicken clip. Your game looks great – so well made!

    1. While Australian Ibises are found widely, this behaviour and the name Bin Chicken is Sydney specific. In the rest of the country they are a normal bird found in wetlands and paddocks.

      Sydney also has a problem with cockies (Sulphur-crested cockatoos) opening kerbside bins that are waiting for collection which doesn’t happen anywhere else. Not sure what the issue is but the people from Sydney are a problem too…

      1. I agree with your sentiment. Animals raiding bins for food is a sign that they, like us, need food and are adaptable where they source it. Often they show intelligence and ingenuity in opening bins to get our waste. For this we slander them with derogatory names, like bin chicken and jerk bird.

        As per usual the real cause of the problem is humans: feeding wildlife, overfilling bins, wasting food and disposing of scraps incorrectly. From the easy pickings the birds learn the habits that lead them to tackling more difficult bins.

        I hope they haven’t used these derogatory terms on the cards for these birds.

      2. Bin chickens are regularly found at rubbish bins in metro and suburban Western Australia too, I don’t know where you get the idea its a “Sydney thing”. They particularly like the large green bins out the back of Nando’s stores here, so maybe ours are just of a more discerning nature :P.

    1. I get the 403 when ever I click on reply or comments option in the emails so can never reply as takes too much scrolling through all the messages to try to find the one

      1. Thank you so much. :)

        Could you tell me the name of the Korean partner?

        I want to know if localization is in progress.

        I like very, very, very, very wingspan!

  185. Any chance of a wingspan tournament at some point? Winner gets advance copy of all future expansions? Participants get a special clip on bird to use as first player marker. In my Wingspan gaming group, we clip a little bird onto the first player. It’s great fun.

    1. We’re not a tournament-focused company, but people are welcome to create their own local tournaments. :)

  186. I love the “bin chicken” card. I honestly had no idea this bird existed, so watching the mockumentary was a humorous way to start my day! I feel like the ability to interact with the discard pile could easily be applied to any bird that is a carrion-eater/scavenger, with some of them simply taking from the discard a only a ‘tucked’ card. Another thought could be interaction with the discard pile as a unique way of “stealing” a food source from another bird: shuffle the discard pile and reveal 1 card. Whatever food source that bird uses to be played is “stolen” and added to the bird’s card as a cache – preventing it from being used by the player for another bird, but viable as points.

    Just some thoughts. Cannot wait to see what else is coming with the expansion!

    1. My first thought was that in the States, seagulls do the same thing. They’re our “bin chickens”. I might add a house rule that would give the option to mimic the Ibis ability with any seagull in the deck. :). I like the current scavenger power, to gain food when another bird’s hunt succeeds, but I can see more birds like that interacting with the discard pile in the future.

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  188. It sounds like the games are already produced and on their way to the transfere hubs. Will other language like a Dutch verstond be available from the start ?

    1. That’s up to our localization partners to decide to reveal when they’re ready. Our Dutch partner is 999 Games.

  189. As the new birds will bring new terms to some bonus cards (e.g. names, areas) and will also affect the probablity to draw those birds (% at the bottom), I would appreciate it if the expansion came with updated bonus cards that replace the original ones from the core game (where necessary). I found it very annoying when the European expansion came out and I always had to look in the rule book AND the bonus card to find out which terms score. For some terms it’s not intuitive. Also, even if you decide to play just the core game, you would not need to switch back to the original bonus cards.

    1. From what I understand the ratios start the same so the percentages on the bonus cards would also be the same. Not sure if that was kept consistent with this expansion. For the additional terms, maybe consider making a little 2-sided cheat sheet as a downloadable extra on BGG or as an add-on in the meeples store. It could have the full list of colors on one side and either geological terms and/or body parts on the other side.

    2. Thanks for your suggestion, Christian! We always keep the percentages the same, so that isn’t an issue. And luckily the added words are usually recognizable without a list. Perhaps we’ll think about printing a new bonus card after all the expansions are released, but we won’t be printing a new one for each expansion.

      1. The percentages changed for the German version of the game, at least for some bonus cards. Which is inevitable as the bird names do not translate 1:1. Perhaps I should contact Feuerland Spiele then.

        How many more expansion are there going to be? If I had to guess, I would say the next one features South America. After all, Winspan would not be complete without the biggest parrot in the world: the Hyacinth macaw.

          1. Right now there are North America, Europe, and Australia. Either North America gets a separate expansion or the seventh continent is Antarctica ;-)

  190. Where do you keep track of who gets the nectar bonus in each round? Will there be a special mat, like with the end-of-round bonuses?

    1. Nectar bonus is evaluated only at the end of the game (and once per habitat). It goes directly to the score sheet.

      1. Oh, okay, so it’s not discarded each round, only the personal supply is discarded? In playtesting, did the nectar chips accumulate heavily? It seems like that may make the board feel crowded or cluttered?

        1. That’s right–if you have nectar in your personal supply at the end of a round, you must discard it.

          Spent nectar does accumulate, but they do so nicely in little stacks.

  191. Would you consider creating updated cards for the hummingbirds in the base game so they reflect that the hummingbirds also consume nectar?

      1. It might be nice to shake it up though, so nectar was the only token that could be played when playing the hummingbirds. Maybe having a nectar sticker that could be put on top of the wild symbol?

        1. There’s no nectar bonus each round, just at the end of the game. You leave your spent nectar tokens on the left side of your mat on corresponding habitat (see yesterday’s design diary for a photo).

    1. I think that would open a big can of words if we started retroactively changing past birds, so I appreciate the idea, but I don’t think we’ll be doing that.

  192. Why would you now ever pick the other food tyoe when for instance nectar/grain is rolled?

    Seems wierd to me making that a choice as it aint no decision at all…

    1. Because you can’t use it for birds whose abilities require specific food, and nectar goes away at the end of each round.

      1. OK, now I’m confused: can two nectar be used to play base game’s Mourning Dove (cost 1 grain)? Or it can only be used to pay for birds that cost nectar and/or wild resources (such as base game’s Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, whose cost is 1 wild resource)?

      2. sorry, in the first question I meant “can ONE nectar be used to play base game’s Mourning Dove (cost 1 grain)?”

      3. Sorry, on the first question I meant “can *ONE* nectar be used to play base game’s Mourning Dove (cost 1 grain)?”

      4. So, since the mourning dove doesn’t require food for special abilities you can use nectar, but the pelican, for example, does require a specific did for it’s special abilities, so you could not use nectar when playing a pelican?

          1. Nectar is wild for playing birds. You cannot use nectar when a bird’s power refers to a specific food type (like if a bird is hunting for fish as part of their power, the bird isn’t going to be satisfied with nectar).

        1. We don’t have all the birds memorized, but I promise all your questions will be answered when the rules are released next week. :)

  193. […] The second expansion to Wingspan is on its way. With Wingspan: Oceania you’ll get the birds of an entirely new part of the world. I’m pretty sure there’ll be kiwis and emus. Maybe cassowaries, too, but they might be too dangerous. Designer diary entries over the next few days will reveal what news this expansion will bring. […]

  194. This expansion is getting better and better with every update. Kudos to the designer (and the design team) for keeping the game relevant and making me and my wife coming back for more. We have played it around 100 times this year and there is always a risk that an expanion is going to make your beloved game less fun. I am more relaxed about it now :)

    Also, will there be updates over the weekend – I check every morning, or do we have to wait until Monday?

  195. The new resource and player mats look really great! I suppose these new play elements will be reflected in new end-of-round goals and bonus cards, right? Though I guess these are in the “yet to be revealed” posts … Also, any plans to spice up the Automa a little? It is nice as it is, but it could always use some more fine tuning.

    Anyway, this is shaping to be an expansion that really shakes up gameplay, which I appreciate a lot. I can only wonder what you have planned for the next expansions :)

  196. Wow, a new food type is neat! Have you worked with MeepleSource on their wooden food tokens? I would love to get some wooden nectar tokens ASAP.

    1. We have their current tokens now and can’t imagine playing with original ones anymore. I hole they will make the nectar too without the need of buying yhe whole set again.

  197. So from what is said here there will be around 85 bird cards in the expansion. Can you tell us the exact number? Also are any of these replacements or upgrades to birds from other boxes?

  198. Interesting! I love the idea of new food source. I’m curious to know if in the future we might expect updated cards for American and European species that eat nectar as well. I’d love to get updated hummingbird cards, for example!

      1. or rather in Wingspan hummingbirds eat ‘wild’ which therefore enables them to use the nectar resource. I can see lots of questions coming up on the meaning of ‘wild’ since the term is used as a food cost and and definition of what necatr is i.e. a ‘wild’. Its already confusing soem people on the FB page.

    1. I agree. For my own deck’s consistency, I’m considering making a nectar symbol sticker to put on top of the hummingbird wild symbol. The bonus card that correlates to the wild symbol would have a slight percentage change, but I don’t think it would be significant enough to affect gameplay at all.

  199. Are the new dice identical? It seems the faces are:

    1. fish
    2. rat
    3. grain/nectar
    4. grain/grub
    5. fruit/nectar
    6. grub

  200. If I understand your statements about the new/old mats correctly: We will be able to use the old mats for the current and all future expansions as long as we do not include the Oceania cards. However; it also appears that the new mats address some play issues, such as the “egg binge”. And for those that plan to shuffle in all expansions, the old mats are not compatible at all unless they search through and pull out all Oceania cards.

    1. Hi Tim! More will be revealed in the coming days. It’ll be easier to understand when the full picture of components and mechanisms are revealed. But in short, if you’re playing with the Oceania cards, then play with the Oceania playermat. If you’re not playing with the Oceania cards, you can play with either type of playermat. No future expansion will require the use of the Oceania playermat (indeed, no expansion will require another expansion ever). The Oceania playermat is simply an alternate playermat, not a permanent replacement.

      1. Thanks Joe. I am looking forward to this expansion as it is adding in some new game play elements and do plan to get all future expansions. I did realize that I can keep the Oceania cards in the deck and just discard them when drawn if we decide to not play with them.
        Also interested in how this affects the Automa as I do play solo more than multi-player.

      2. You probably can’t answer this today, but I’ll still ask. :) If you take the 17 birds that require the new components out of the deck, are there still any yellow power birds left to shuffle into the main deck? :)

  201. Thank you so much for the teaser. I bought this game for my 9-year old who loves birds but she’s only played twice. It’s the 7-year old with little interest in birds who insists that we play *every* day. We are really looking forward to the expansion so that we can see some more of our local birds (we live in Tasmania – you do have Turbo Chooks, don’t you?). The change to egg laying is an interesting idea and should give some balance – my cloaca gets really sore in the fourth round!

  202. I’m a bit disappointed that in the redesigned player mat there is still no proper place for the “play a bird” action tokens. Just that little line on the top.

  203. Are there plans for making the new mats in neoprene as well? I’d hope so as I don’t want 2 different mats of different materials. Will the big box also accommodate the neoprene mats? I personally rolled them up and they replaced the old mats in the original box pretty easily. Thanks!

    1. We’ll post a poll about that soon, and we’re planning for the neoprene mats to lay flat in the big box.

  204. Hi Jamey, do you know if Grok Games is going to publish it in Portuguese for us Brazilian players? We haven’t even got the European expansion, I’m seriously considering importing both expansions :(

      1. In your FAQ you mentioned creating a big box to house the game & expansions was in the works. If this is still in the planning phase please take into account those of us who sleeve our cards.

  205. Any reason to lessen the amount of eggs a player can retrieve early on? Was this just to make the new mat play differently than the original mat, or was this to re-balance the “egg binge” at the end of the game? Or a little of both?

  206. Looks great. I wonder if it would be good idea to make sticker of new mat layouts, overlay the old mats and possibly play with 8 people, seems like fun to me. Also would not leave old matts dusting in a box.

    1. Or in a game with 6+ players you could randomly pass out the boards with some getting the original board and some the new boards. The original boards will still have some advantages – players can collect eggs much faster than on the new boards.

  207. SO EXCITED!!! Well done on charity and design!!! I keep putting in my email to get notification for preorder bc i keep forgetting i already put it in >:-)

  208. Awesome! Have you noticed “power creep” (more points being scored) in your playtesting with new boards?

  209. Is the size of the new mat the same as the previous mat? Sleeved cards are a tight fit on the current mats and I’m wondering if they will now have a little more room to “spread their wings.”

  210. Interesting! Is the plan for future expansions be playable on these mats only, or possibly playable on both? I tend to keep my decks mixed and I plan on getting all of the expansions, so this would seen the render the old boards useless. Will moving the old boards out of my base game box allow for these boards to fit instead, or are these boards too big for the base game box?

      1. We don’t know for sure, though we would never require anyone to have Oceania for an independent expansion. Most likely these mats will be compatible with any expansion. But the original boards are far from useless–the new mats are just different. You can look at the thickness of the mats in your Wingspan box–two sets of mats won’t fit.

        1. Can you elaborate on “the misconception that the original mats are “useless” or “obsolete,” which couldn’t be further from the truth.”? If buying (and playing) the expansion, what would be the use for the old mats? I can’t see any other use for the neoprene mats I bought (other than protecting the table when I’m eating). so I’m very curious as to how they fit in?

          1. Whenever you play Wingspan with just the core game and/or the European expansion, you can use either the original player mats or the Oceania mats.

  211. Oh my goodness… I just can’t wait for this expansion to go on preorder!!! A change to the player mats was exactly what I’ve been waiting to see! So far, even without the bird reveals you’ve sold me on this game and all of it’s future expansions! Can’t wait for more!

  212. Will this be shipped from an eu warehouse for us non us folk.

    Is it possible to buy playmats through an eu warehouse so we don’t have to pay vat and postal handling fees which doubles the prices of most products.
    I would like to buy extra eggs / mats can this be included in the shipping? From the eu warehouse.

    1. Will there be neoprene mats available for this version? If you did a pre order for all then you could justify the cost of making selling and sending them from an eu warehouse.

    2. As noted under “release details” on this page: “The Wingspan Oceania Expansion will be available to preorder from Stonemaier Games in late October, with all preorders being shipped from fulfillment centers in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK in November.”

      We keep all of our products in stock at each of those fulfillment centers.

      1. As for rumors, the only components in the game are those that I officially announce. You’ll know all components in expansion by the middle of next week.

        We will post a poll soon about the possibility of making neoprene versions of the new mats.

  213. Not really happy about the new player mats to be honest. Feels like the original ones are useless now and will stay in the box forever :(
    Anyway, I’m really excited about the new birds, hoping for a lot of parrots :)

    1. If the game gets (even) better it is still a net positive :-)
      Take Viticulture for example – the base game is good, but the Tuscany board makes it excellent (in my opinion) and you have a similar issue, he base board never gets used again.

      I’ll put the old boards into the oceania expansion (and put it sonewhere where it won’t be in the way) and keep all the playing pieces required to play in the base box and european box to reduce shelf space as much as possible (if it will all fit of course)

  214. I quite liked how in Wingspan so far it has been hard to fill the board. Is there any data on whether this will change with the new expansion?

    1. Some friends I game with struggle to fill the board and to help with this, we start with more resources at the beginning (6 or 8 instead of 5).

        1. I agree with you. I’m the same way. I love a challenge. I have been playing the digital version of the game on Steam and it has helped refine my strategy. I’m finding that about 40% of the time I can get 13 or 14 cards on the board. I have yet to reach 15 though. Key factors that help with this are having one of the two ravens in play in the grassland that can exchange one egg for two food from the supply. I also snatch up the “play another bird in same habitat”cards so I can get two birds played on one action cube. If you ever wanted to do multiplayer on Steam let me know! My username is Lausdower.

          1. we deal 5 every round as could not see that in the rules. Would make it difficult to get more cards when you b=need food early on

        1. There’s nothing in the rules I see that instructs for extra cards to be dealt at the start of each round, just a refresh of the bird tray. It may seem difficult at first, but it’s a challenging game, which is why I like it so much. It’s super important to be strategic with what you play in the first round.

          If there are any rules that seem unclear, a great way to find that clarity is to play the Steam version of the game, or watch a playthrough in YouTube. And, obviously, house rules are a thing too. You’re certainly allowed to make your own house rules if it makes the game more enjoyable for you and those you play with. :)

  215. The size of the box suggest to me that it contains a much bigger container for the cards that might even fit all the cards from the base and both expansions. I only have the base game and my cards are sleeved and they barely fit in the container. I do however realize that most people do not sleeve these high quality cards. Even with a bigger container, I expect my sleeved cards will not all fit in one container and I’ll probably also need one of either the base or European expansion’s container.

    1. They have said that they’ll release a big box in 2021 but that while the cards will fit in the current holders, there are other components in this expansion that will not fit.

      1. Yes, I noted this in yesterday’s design diary post: “The classic question that accompanies any expansion reveal is, “Does the expansion fit into the core game box?” The answer is, “Not really.” If you don’t sleeve the cards and you have the European expansion, you’ll have enough room between the 2 card trays (core game and European) for all the cards. But the other components in the Oceania expansion won’t fit. However, we are currently working on a big box solution with a built-in organizer designed to hold all Wingspan content (past, present, and future); it should be ready sometime in 2021. It will be just a box and a modular organizer–no gameplay content.”

        1. I cannot get the EU expansion into the core box the leave the eggs and half the cards in the expansion box in the cellar as it takes quite a few games to go through the cards as only two of us

          1. I was able to fit all of the cards and eggs from the European expansion into my base game box. I also added a bird nest for the eggs which also fits. It may just be a matter of how you’re organizing the space in the box. There is a helpful diagram on the side of the box that suggests how the components are best stored. If you leave your email in a comment I can send you pictures of how I keep mine organized.

  216. Hi Jamey! Big fan of your company games (top quality and a lot of fun!). Do you know if this expansion is going to be publish on Spain by Maldito Games? If not I’ll buy the english version, but I really would love to have it on mother tongue (it’s not the same feeling to play it in english :P ).
    Cheers!

  217. I’m so excited. I’m completely enamored with this game. The long flat big makes me wonder if there are going to be alternate player mats.

  218. The box seems to be a very different shape to that of the European expansion. Intriguing!

    I’m very excited for this one

  219. Again, the artwork on the box is stunning! We’re in Melbourne, and really looking forward to dealing out some birds from home. Can’t wait to see what else is in the box. Thank you!

  220. Guys, you’ve posted the first part of the design diary in the FAQ section, and the Design Diary still says “to come”. :)

  221. Hi Jamey, all of your games I have are in English, but this one I have in Dutch, since the Dutch bird names make way more sense to me. In the Netherlands 999Games published the game and the European expansion. Do you know if and when there will be a Dutch version of this Oceania expansion released?
    Thanks!

    1. Hi Tim!

      999 heeft de eerste teaser al gegeven en gaan ‘m ook uitbrengen! :) De release van de europose uitbreiding van stonemaier en 999 was op de zelfde dag dus wellicht deze ook! Ik ben benieuwd :)
      Groetjes!

    1. We already use really durable cardstock, and changing the cardstock at this point would create major inconsistencies between various printings.

  222. It does not include a 6th player mat. I will be disappointed if it includes an updated gosl board as I have already gotten that one. Hopefully it is a game board for an optional game module.

  223. I am guessing we will need different player mats for the game, with an extra habitat. There is no “desert” or outback habitat in the current game.

    I am so excited about this! Take my money!

    1. The birds in Australia, New Zealand and PNG still live in trees, in water or on the ground. The sands of the desert are on the ground and can be grassy. Plus, not all of Australia is desert/the ouback. And New Zealand…no desert.

        1. True! Also, another habitat would be interesting.
          I’d like to see either an interesting card hand holder or a tray/lazy susan for the resources. I know you could just buy them separately, or at meeplesource, but included in an expansion would suit. Maybe even a different resource to mix in like seed, or another fruit…or flowers/nectar. We do have a lot of honeyeaters here.
          I guess we will see what exciting things they came up with! I just appreciate any expansion.

        2. In general grassland is hard enough to fill (in a bird list sense) to balance out the more plentiful forest birds…so I have generally been lumping desert/outback in with grassland in what’s really an amorphous “few big trees” category. (Tundra’s in there too.) There are *some* interesting birds in the outback but not enough to support a whole new habitat *and* have a separate grassland…and that’s not even considering how a new habitat would work logistically when different players will be mixing with different amounts of cards (base game and/or other expansions).

          1. Thank you for your reply!
            I considered the grassland as ground when playing, so lumping desert and tundra into general open areas makes sense.
            And as for the new nectar design, Thank you!
            I can’t wait to feed my Lorikeet, and other honeyeaters!

            The Rainbow Lorikeet card is a beauty. I love the inclusion of Banksia.

  224. The dimensions are about the size of a player board folded in half. 5th player option coming? I guess we’ll find out.

    1. The game already supports 5 players. :) Perhaps you meant 6th player option? If you look at the side of the Oceania Box it still says 1 – 5 players. :)

  225. Thank you for sharring. I will be all over the pre-order like a hawk (no pun intended) but I worry that it will sell out in 3 minutes (something you as a publisher would probably love) and I’ll miss it. What have you done to make sure we have enough copies? Do you expect shortages because of factory delays, or not being abke to print as many as you hoped in first run?

        1. I am beyond excited. You guys are my favorite designer/publisher team. (I just secretly hope you’ll never succumb to temptation of making rules where we need to be nasty to other players and attck their bird sanctuaries as you are comming up with more expansions).

      1. I can’t wait to play the new expansion! Do you know of it will be released in german language this year as well?

        1. Feuerland is publishing the Oceania expansion in German, but the release date for that is their’s to announce. :)

  226. Hi guys,

    I’m from Brazil.
    Me and my wife we love this boardgame. We bought Wingspan and Wingspan: European Expansion on Pre-Order last year and I’ll buy the Oceania Expansion. You are doing a great job.

    Let me ask you something…

    Have you ever thought about expanding on Amazonian birds?

    1. Yes, each expansion will focus on a different continent, so we will someday get to South America. I’m excited about the birds there.

    1. All of our expansions currently include only extant birds, but perhaps we’ll consider an extinct bird expansion in the future. :)

  227. Kia ora from New Zealand,

    My friends and I are really looking forward to seeing our local birds in the game.

    It would be really awesome if you could include the Te Reo Māori names of the New Zealand birds on the cards. Te Reo Māori is one of New Zealand’s official languages, and is the language of Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

    We can’t wait to play the expansion!

  228. I’m excited for this expansion. We love our native birds here in New Zealand. Every year our native birds compete for the very hotly contested title of “Bird of the Year”. Birds have their own social media accounts and backing from NZ celebrities and politicians.

    Wingspan is great fun and is the most requested game at our game nights – a few people have gone out and immediately purchased their own copy after playing. It has enough challenge for those of us who like a more complex game but it’s easy for new players to pick up.

    1. Thanks for asking, Eric, but COVID hasn’t impacted the production of Wingspan Oceania at all. It’s actually a bit ahead of schedule.

  229. Hi, will this expansion only be a card expansion or will it introduce new components and/or mechanics as well?

    1. Hi Di! That’s correct. The Oceania Expansion is not playable alone, but all you need is the Wingspan base game to play with the new birds (you don’t need any other expansions).

  230. Hi
    It is almost impossible to get Wingspan at the moment in South Africa. We are lucky to have a copy, but we would really like to get the Europe and then Oceania expansions when it is released, but they are nowhere to be found here. Is there a place we can get them from that ships to South Africa at an affordable rate. Thank you

    1. I’m sorry it’s been difficult to get in South Africa. We do have a distributor there that we’re talking to today–I’ll bring this up.

    1. Our expansions expand the base game–they’re separate entities with no overlap, and the core game is required if you want to play the expansion.

  231. I just saw the teaser from Meeplesource about the expansion, and while it’s exciting to see the NZ birds represented there it’s a little disappointing to see their colonial names instead of their indigenous ones. Is it too late to have the indigenous Māori names for the little blue penguin / morepork / fantail (kororā / ruru / pīwakawaka) included?
    In light of Stonemaier’s support and commitment to the BLM movement, an acknowledgement of NZ indigenous culture (which has also suffered under colonialism) would be amazing

    1. Hi Mike! Meeplesource does not know the birds that will be released in the Oceania expansion. They simply made educated guesses. They also don’t know what the cards will say about birds that they happened to guess correctly.

      1. I personally hope the birds have the English names in the English version. Maybe a Maori language version would be good for those that prefer the Maori names?

          1. If there’s room on the card they could. But there’s the Latin name too, it might get a bit crowded.

    2. I love this idea! NZers are using the Maori names more and more for many of these birds, it would be amazing to have that represented!

      1. Awesome! We’re using Maori names for NZ birds, including the Tui, Pukeko, Kiwi, Korimako, Kereru, Kea, and Kakapo (my spelling here is missing the icons over some of the letters, which are on the cards).

        1. good to hear, funny I didn’t know the Puketo, Kia etc were the Maouri names as they were the only names I knew for them on out visit 10 years ago

    3. I would soo love that too! Using the Maori names would make the game that much more special and would be the tipping point for me buying the game for sure!

      1. I can confirm that we used Maori names for NZ birds, including the Tui, Pukeko, Kiwi, Korimako, Kereru, Kea, and Kakapo (my spelling here is missing the icons over some of the letters, which are on the cards).

  232. We absolutely love wingspan and are looking forward to up and coming expansions. As a nature lover, one thing that is troubling me is the amount of plastic in games including in the cards themselves. Please can subsequent version be biodegradable and planet friendly? It’s a big challenge for games producers to step up to. Biomimicry can offer plenty of inspiration for how to create durable and practical products that are planet friendly. I’d love to hear what your plans are at stonemaier to create a better footprint on the planet?

  233. We love to play with 3-4 players but where wondering with the ocean expansion of you would increase the players to 5-6

    There are more then sufficient bird in the game to support this.

    1. Thanks for your comment, Sacha! And I’m glad you’re enjoying Wingspan!

      The game already plays 5 players. We don’t have any plans to expand the playercount to 6 players, but we’re open to the idea if we can think of a way to also speed up the game a bit. :)

      1. Just thinking out loud here, and I am fairly sure someone will have though of this but: For 6, players, opposite players play at the same time(1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6). You’d need to rule on who chooses the card/food first, but this could be possible with a current primary/secondary player counters which get passed around – although if the ‘secondary’ player waited to see what the primary player was doing, it wouldn’t necessarily speed things up that much. Also, once between turns would become less balanced – although more or less power would need testing.

      2. Hey Joe! I know this is an old post – and you’ve probably already thought of this – but I have three humble thoughts on this…

        1. Each player has a total of 26 turns throughout the game. This means 5 players total up to 130 turns to complete the game (5 x 26 = 130).

        What about reducing the starting amount of turn cubes by 1 for 6 players? This would reduce each player by 4 turns over the course of the game (1 turn x 4 rounds) for a total of 22 turns. And – it’s a super easy modification, putting one cube back.

        This means 6 players total up to 132 turns to complete the game (6 x 22 = 132). So, still a pretty equitable amount of game time, overall.

        Is this something you already considered in the original playtesting and it was a no-go?
        Is this why the magic number is 5 and 26? :D

        2. If you do add a 6th player (or not), I was thinking some extra cubes could be white. For folks that cant help but hatch ONLY bird eggs that match their cube color – currently we have Blue Eggs, Green Eggs, Yellow Eggs, (Light) Red Eggs and if you own the expansion, Purple Eggs – but no matching cubes for the White Eggs.

        Seems like it might be a good bonus to get some white cubes in the Oceanic Expansion. However, thematically it might fit better with the Antarctic expansion – especially with some penguins. ;)

        3. One extra thing about 6 player – not being very sure how common 6 players would be for folks – maybe interested folks can just buy an extra cardboard tableau from your store (like the plastic containers) vs including it in a future expansion? Or, you could sell the cubes and an extra tableau together and call it the Wingspan Flock Pack?

        For me personally, I would not normally play 6 player in person very often – but now, due to COVID – I’ve been playing Wingspan remotely online with friends who have their own copy – and it’s really EASY to assemble 6 players – although we don’t need the extra tableau.

        You probably hear this often from people, but I am continuously marveling at the genius of Wingspan. This is truly in a league of it’s own for countless reasons.

        1. Dave: We playtested Wingspan at various lengths, and we found that the current number of rounds and actions per player works best.

          Currently we don’t plan to add a 6th player, but it’s easy to add for those who want to try it (just buy a neoprene playmat and use some spare cubes from another game). :)

  234. My partner and I are constantly saying “Wingspan needs an Australia and NZ expansion set. Imagine if they did that! The magpie-lark would have to be aggressive and tenacious.” And now I’ve just found this!! So excited!

  235. Hi Jamey, probably the best board game my wife Elena and I have played to date, close to Viticulture-Tuscanny .

    We play the game as a 2 player with option to draw from 5 birds— 3 from the tray +the bird deck cards split into 2 in the card holder tray with the top cards upturned to choose from. So there will always be 5 bird cards to choose from. I think this is an excellent variation for a 2 player game.

    An interesting idea for future expansions would be an option to trade cards. Either, a brown power….when activated trade one card from your hand for another bird in the tray…or a teal round end where you could trade say up to 2 cards from your hand for 2 birds from the deck or the tray.

    looking forward to next expansion…. Johnny

  236. Thank you! This is easily the best game I’ve ever played, I really enjoy the fact that there is a lot of birds in the game and hopefully lots of more come.
    But I was wondering if the English version will be shipped to countries where there either is or will be publishers translating it.
    Greetings from Sweden!

  237. One of the greatest games ever made! Being two biologists at home makes it even better :) We usually play with 2 extra action cubes at the start of each game because only then can you really build your own game (the bonus card can’t be used to the fullest because the rounds are too short).

    Perhaps a suggestion for a next expansion: A trade platform for bird cards. For example a player could put one of his/her birds down there and a next player can swap it for one of his/hers. Alternatively actions that allow you to search the deck. When we play we easily try to get a trend going (e.g., birds of prey, birds that let you stock up cards or food, expensive birds, etc.), but as the number of birds increases over time this will become difficult and take some of the fun away.

  238. Hey Jamey,

    Looking forward for this expansion of the game. My wife and I love the base game along with the Euro expansion. I was interested if this or any of the future expansions could include a couple of elements
    1. If there is a way to custom prepare the deck to draw from. There are already about 250 cards in the deck and if we add more from Oceania and then potentially other continents, we might have a huge deck which is not only difficult to manage but also, the probability of drawing a card from all the regions becomes tougher. if there was a way to reduce the number of cards proportionally, then it might improve the game experience
    2. The other thing was, if there was a plan to introduce something which can make it a campaign based game or introduces something which changes the dynamics completely (something like Rise of fenris)

    Curious to know your thoughts on these.

    Thanks!

    1. Thanks for sharing your ideas, Srijan! I think both of these are possible. In the Oceania rulebook, we offer the suggestion that players combine 2 decks instead of using both expansions and the core game (though that could result in a lot of sorting).

  239. I was thinking about custom making this expansion for my brother and extended family who love this game. But with just New Zealand native birds. Tell me are there going to be Pukeko, Kiwi, Morpork, The Legendary Moa, Fantails, Tui?

    1. Morpork and Fantail need to be named Ruru and Pīwakawaka per their Māori names, please!
      Moa are totally extinct, so I hope you don’t end up going there. Yet.

  240. Will this expansion (and all subsequent expansions) be ‘stand alone’? ie. playable separate/without the European expansion?
    Will the idea be you can and mix match any combination of expansions into the base game?

    As an NZ local i am really looking forward to this expansion!

    1. Our expansion strategy across all brands is that no expansions are dependent on each other (but they’re also compatible with other expansions). All of our expansions expand the core game (and thus require you to have and use the core game with them).

      1. Hi, Jamey. This is a fabulous game, and I’ve made a spreadsheet of all the birds currently released with their Norwegian names. This so it will be easier to play with my family. I absolutely love it, but I’ve noticed a few minor mistakes in the naming of birds. Feel free to contact me, I you’d like my input before making future print runs.

        As you mention in the rulebook that the bonus card percentages will still be right when including the EE, couldn’t you just play with the birds from this expansion, without using the base game birds (I know we’ll need the base game for the other components)? I’m asking because shuffling 261 birds takes a lot of effort.

        1. If you’re dealing with the English version of the game and you notice any mistakes, feel free to email me: Joe@StonemaierGames.com. Other versions are published by our publishing-partners and contacting them would be contacting the source.

          And you’re right, with the English version and a lower playercount game, you could conceivably play with the expansion alone. Different language versions deal with some of the “name-related” bonus cards differently, so those particular percentages may be different if playing without the base game.

  241. I was a big fan of Scythe and then Viticulture drew me further into Stonemaier Games with its’ worker placement platform on such a fun premise. Wingspan blows me away! It is such a fun, accessible and beautiful game. I just saw Oceania is in the works and told my wife that there is bad news, we have to wait for more expansions to our favorite game. I love the mechanisms that Euro introduced and am excited for the e-version to be released on Steam and now this! Wingspan could be argued as a top five game of all time in my mind. I would love realistic resources. I look forward to buying Oceania and every other expansion this game releases.

  242. Probably getting ahead of myself here but what are the odds of an Essential edition after all continent expansions are out? If so, will Elizabeth, Uwe and/or yourself be collaborating on it?

    1. Terry: The current version of Wingspan is the essential version. :) If you’re looking for “big box” version that includes all expansions, I think it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever make such a thing. Much more likely is that we make a box with an organizer that people can put all of the various components in (after we know what will be in all of the expansions)–the box itself won’t contain any gameplay components.

  243. Please consider a South America expansion, we have more than a thousand species in Amazonia, Brazil. Thanks for this beautiful game ♥

      1. Hi Jamey. Will this include Antartica and therefore lots of penguins? (I’m a little bit in love with penguins).

        1. Definitely–Antarctica is a continent! It mostly has penguins among its birds, so they would be the focus of this expansion.

    1. Yes specially now that the amazon is under constant attack with as man-made fires scorch all our biomes. I think the region deserves an expansion too, it would help raise awareness!

      1. Would you be able to give us a bit of a glimps into production proces? Is it developing mechanics? Developing images for cards? Designing bits? Testing?

        Also, what is the main mechanics that will be introduced in this expansion?

        1. Sylvia: The production process begins as soon as we’ve submitted the final files to our manufacturer. They then check the digital files for any potential errors (like if a file is misaligned or a different size than the quote). They then proceed to make the non-printed components, followed by the printed components. At the end of the process, they assemble everything into the box and prepare it for freight shipment.

          We’ll talk about the mechanisms later this year. :)

  244. Excited for the new expansion! I hope the new expansion moderates the overused tucking strategy for the euro expansion.

  245. I’m excited for this. I really hope we will see some new game mechanics as well as new bird mechanics and maybe win conditions.

  246. Howdy from Duvall Washington. My wife and I have really enjoyed playing Wingspan. Her sister played with us recently and loved it !! We have yet to play a four player game and figured out how, my wife I alternate turns and play two boards each on one game.It adds a new dimension to the game and is quite challenging. We can’t wait to get together with three other folks and have a five player game. We really like the European Expansion and can’t wait for Oceania !! Thanks. Kelly

  247. I just want to echo another users comment. It is uncommon especially in modern NZ to use to English names. Te Reo names are considered the most appropriate.
    It may be even safer to include both.
    Very much looking forward to fielding a Ruru or Kereru. Very exciting

  248. One thing that I really hope (and I have a fair bit of trust that you will get this right) is that the names of the NZ birds are given in Te Reo Maori. Although many of these birds have European names as well, these days in NZ it is uncommon to use them. It is usually only as an act of political provocation that people insist on using the European name.

    There are a few that are sometimes ok (eg “fantail” for the Piwakawaka) but using “NZ Wood Pigeon” for Kereru will at the least get some raised eyebrows, and using “woodhen” for Weka would be considered ridiculous.

  249. It would be good to add the wandering albatross, just to see the look on a player’s face when they do a hunt hoping for something with a wingspan of less than 1m.

    They breed on Macquarie Island as well as a few other islands not in Oceania and can be seen year round of NZ South Island.

  250. I hope the takahe and the Chatham Island Oystercatcher are in there. Extremely rare and incredible birds.

  251. I absolutely love Wingspan, and play with all the family here in Melbourne, Australia. We are so looking forward to seeing our favourite bird – the Currawong with their magnificent bird call – in the Oceania expansion.

  252. Hi from Colorado. U.S. Who needs Automa? During this pandemic, I have played Wingspan over and over with 3 of my ghost family members. I am 70 years old and have most of one lung removed so I can not see my two sons. I included my mother in my games because she loved birds and introduced me to our feathered friends when I was in high school. She passed away 34 years ago. I go around my card table and play for each player with no bias! Fascinating playing all the different scenarios. Than I keep a running total who may be the ultimate winner! I knew Automa would be too boring for me. I feel like I have company every evening with my loved ones. Love this game!
    One great suggestion for Oceania – why not eggs hatching and little ones fledging with big success points?
    Thanks, for making this game. It is beautifully done.
    Jean

    1. Thank you for sharing this, Jean! I think it’s wonderful that you’re able to play from each person’s perspective (though I hope at some point you’ll be able to see your sons and play with them in person). While we’re done with the Oceania design, we’ll certainly consider your idea for future expansions! :)

      1. Hello. You’re *done* with the design! Woop! So we must be nearing release date? Any chance of an update please?

        1. Richard: There’s typically a 7-month gap between when the design is complete and when the game is released. Graphic design, production, and freight shipping take a long time. :)

  253. I really hope that the Kea from New Zealand is included!
    It would be a shame if it wasn’t, as it is such an extraordinary bird.

    1. Where are you playing from? On June 21st, my girlfriend and I in LA just logged our 100th game of Wingspan for 2020.

  254. I really hope the Oceania expansion has Penguins in it. Penguins are birds and do lay eggs and some species are found in Australia. One can hope. Really looking forward to more great content for Wingspan. Take care!

    1. I also hope for other flightless birds kiwis and emus. Maybe the can come with a novel mechanic.

  255. I’ve been playtesting the automa for this, and I can’t wait for this expansion to come out. It’s great!

  256. Wow, I am really excited about your new expansion. I know, that may sound weird, but I am a huge fan of bats. As we all know, bats don’t build nests and don’t lay eggs, but is there any chance to get a bat expansion for Wingspan or even a spin-off with slighly changed mechanics?

    1. Thanks Marius! While we don’t have anything bat-themed in the works, it’s possible we could explore that theme someday.

  257. Hi! Is the pandemic affecting the timeline of this expansion in any way? Which quarter of 2020 can we expect the expansion to be ready? Getting itchy here (:

  258. As we gain more and more expansions, the deck of birds will become quite large. Hopefully game mechanisms or other setup suggestions will allow us to cycle through more of the large deck or play with various subsets in a recommended way

  259. After sleeving the cards in Wingspan and the European Expansion, both custom trays for cards are full. :) If there’s no custom tray in the Oceania Expansion, can a custom tray be sold separately from Stonemaier Games perhaps? If so, bonus points to you if it has a different color than the custom trays that come with the games. :)

  260. Hi. Can you please pass on my thanks and congratulations for what I would describe as a perfect game. Are there any plans for more premium food tokens or bird tower? I often look elsewhere for accessories but I really want everything I buy for this game to be official as it’s all so wonderfully made.

    Thank you.

  261. Please tell the games creator how much we adore this game !! As avid gamers, we just love it. Please consider allowing the app to traverse borders to Canada so we can play virtually.

    1. Thanks! While we’re not the creators of Wingspan digital content, I’m sure it will be accessible worldwide.

  262. Please find a solution to organize all material coming the base game + all expansions in a single box with sleveed cards. Many of us does not have the space for storing two or more boxes for a single game in our houses. In addition the size of the box of European Expansion is totally out of standard and this increase the problem. Thanks.

  263. What are you thinking about after you do the birds of all the continents? My wife got that high pitch noise of excitement when I said we should suggest Rodents. Just think of all the chinchillas, gerbils, hamster, ferrets, flying squirrels, and all the little “miceys”.

    1. Thanks for your suggestion, Jacob! We’re taking things one step at a time, and it will be quite a while until we have an expansion for all the continents (and Oceania isn’t even done yet!).

  264. Wingspan is a great game – and has us entertained in this COVID-19 lockdown. Being bird watches in Australia – really looking forward to the Oceania extension.

  265. We have a few penguin species in Australia so it would be a fun set to include them all. We also have a lot of birds that live in close contact with humanity, I have a friend who had his pizza stolen from his hand by a laughing kookaburra, another friend who had an ice cream stolen by the aforementioned ibis “bin chicken”, sea gulls have stolen my fish and chips, and the magpie and plu in Australia swoop you, particularly if your riding a bike! Apparently this is not a common trait in other places of the world. These are just a few common examples. I think the fairy penguin would make an interesting addition too, also known as the little penguin. We have a few penguin species in Australia so it would be a fun set to include them all.

  266. Saw this too late… anyway. I hope it has nice end of round goals, which ware one of the reasons I won’t play Wingspan w/o Europe expansion anymore (or at least not w/o the new round goals). It just gives a lot more variety how people play the game.

    From the comments below, I guess this will be a small box expansion (as Europe has been), is that correct? :)

  267. Please please please please include the Kakapo in the cards!!! I love those green owl parrots so much!!

  268. First of all, I’m late to the party here, but good on you for helping with the rescue effort!

    I’ve been looking forward to this expansion; stoked about frogmouths, kakapos, and all the colorful stuff I don’t recognize from animal videos. I’ll second a request for some birds from Oceania proper; someone suggested birds of paradise, and I’ll throw out those blue footed boobies from the Galapagos. Anyways, I’m not super knowledgeable about birds, and learning about all these birds I’ve never seen has been one of the best parts of this game for me.

  269. Jamey, so looking forward to the Oceania expansion. My family and I would be over the moon if you could please include the extraordinarily beautiful Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria), the largest species of pigeon in the world, with a booming mating call, and the bronzewinged spinifex pigeon (Geophaps plumifera), which we saw on our visit to Kata Tjuta twenty years ago, an encounter we still think of fondly today.

  270. Hi there, Ive been thinking a bit more about the upcoming expansion and have a couple of ideas. I haven’t played the European expansion yet. I have it, but wanted to play the base game a bit more before bringing it out. Anyway these ideas may already be in there, or may be rubbish.
    1) Nest predators. This is not a uniquely Oceania thing, but certainly happens here. Nest predators range from insects (ants) to reptiles and mammals (including the incredibly cute sugar glider), but also include other birds. Perhaps as a brown effect the pied currawong could allow you to predate another nest in your sanctuary and tuck two cards (I’m not sure on balance, so maybe they could be from the deck) or maybe take as many eggs as you want from any nest and tuck that many cards or that many plus one. This card would have to go in forest, otherwise it would be too powerful.
    2) Mimics. Lyrebirds are our most famous mimics and with good reason, they are amazing! However, there are many more mimics and they are a diverse group (see for example this birdlife Australia quiz https://birdlife.org.au/australian-birdlife/detail/flockwiz-1). I’ve already seen the repeat a power from this row. The mimic birds could have powers ranging from mimic the power of any bird in your aviary, mimic a power from the three birds in the blue tray or even mimic the power of a bird in any player’s aviary.

  271. Thanks for choosing to do the Oceania expansion next and for your generous donation to WIRES.

    I am very excited to see which birds you choose as this region (and those still to come) has an amazing diversity of birds. There are many beautiful birds and some very interesting groups. I know the description is very brief, but focussing on Australia and New Zealand seems a mistake. Melanesia has more bird species than Australia and about four times as many as New Zealand. Furthermore, many families of birds endemic to Oceania, such as bowerbirds and fairy wrens, have a strong presence in New Guinea. Additionally most birds of paradise species are in New Guinea.

    I’m hoping for another 170 bird cards.

    There is so much variety and a very high degree of endemic species, genera and families in the regions of Oceania (New Zealand excels here).

    Some other suggestions: Parrots, rosellas and budgerigar, cockatoos and cockateils, lyrebirds and scrub-birds, kingfishers and kookaburras, doves and pigeons (there are some real beauties), honeyeaters, kiwis, rails including weka and takahe, emu, cassowaries, mound builders, cuckoos (koels and the channel billed cuckoos lay multiple eggs in the same nest), frogmouths, finches and penguins.

  272. Suggestion for the Oceania expansion…
    First, I’m super excited for another expansion! My suggestion/question: Is it possible to include a deeper bird card tray to fit all of the cards from the original game + two expansions (that will also fit in the box)? Having the EE tray fits all of the cards, but both trays do not fit in the box. One deeper tray could do the trick!

  273. Can you make bird pairs? Some male look different from female and there can be some plaing rules for pair cards

  274. I have a few questions about the birds that will appear in this expansion.
    1. Will Oceania include birds of paradise?
    2. How will you handle the wingspan of flightless birds?
    3. Will there be any new effect types in the expansion, like we got with the Round End from the European expansion?

    1. +1 for fantail! They are the best bird ever BUT please also include (or use) the Māori name, “pīwakawaka”

      1. I agree, fantails are a good choice. The genus is very well represented in Oceania. I would guess that Australia’s favourite fantail is the Willy wagtail.

  275. Fantastic game for avid board game players, who are also avid birdwatchers! Can hardly wait for a future game which will include birds from all continents. Love the artwork!

  276. Will this expansion include new player interaction similar to what the European expansion did (or same as European)?

    1. Right now we’re focusing on saving dying birds in Australia. We’ll discuss the details of the expansion when we’re ready to release it.

  277. They always say don’t wish your life away, but with another expansion to this game on the horizon, that’s hard advice to follow. Keep them coming!! Love the box suggestion, Clifford. And way to go Stonemaier for the contribution to Australia.

    Go CARDS!

  278. I saw a few comments regarding box sizing and components. It does seem like there will likely be several more expansions for this game. I would love to see a box design that would allow for the current game + expansions with room for 2-3 further expansions. I think with the success of Wingspan this would be a reasonable consideration. I have a special appreciation for game boxes that make everything easily sortable and playable out of the box (See Spirit Island as a great example)

    1. As a matter of fact, the current Wingspan box is completely sufficient to accommodate everything in the base game and the European expansion (cards, eggs, manual). There is a guide on this very site how to arrange the components so that everything fits. The only caveat is that food and egg tokens will not be stored separately, but it is something I can live with.

      Still, if there is a box that can include the card tray from the expansion along with the base game, it will be appreciated. As I understand it, the additional tray is designed to accommodate many future expansions.

  279. Thank you for supporting WIRES – they do great work here in Australia.

    I can’t wait for this expansion. Will there be any of amazing Papua New Guinea Birds of Paradise?

  280. Love it – some beautiful birds here in Oz!
    Hopefully the different coloured eggs will be a factor soon; other than looking delicious!

  281. Thank you so much for announcing this. i was waiting for the Oceanic expansion before I bought Wingspan. I know more US presidents, than I do Australian Prime Ministers. So looking forward to learning more about my own backyard. And THANK YOU for supporting WIRES.

  282. This is a very notable cause. You and your company are truly special. Thank you for trying to make a difference!

  283. Jamey, as an Aussie now living in NZ this is super exciting! Thanks for your support for Australia, it is much appreciated. And I guess this means your trip to NZ last year was a tax deductible business trip for ‘research’, right… ;-)

    1. The trip was entirely personal (and paid for as such). But knowing about the Oceania expansion made it extra fun to see the birds of New Zealand while I was there.

      1. Of course. Sorry if my comment came across as any kind of criticism or real insinuation. It was meant to be a silly joke – it’s hard to know how these come across online sometimes! Grace and peace to you :-)

  284. Speaking as an Australian, if you include the Australian white ibis, please can the fun fact be that we call them ‘bin chickens’.

    1. I was playing a game yesterday and we were saying how there should be a bin chicken, who’s power lets you draw cards from the discard pile.

  285. I hope this expansion will add more player interaction! The only thing I miss from this fun-game, a bit like multiplayer solitair.

    1. Multiplayer solitaire is when players’ choices don’t impact each other at all. Wingspan has quite a bit of interaction: The dice you choose from the dice tower (and when you choose to reroll them), the bird cards you choose (if you take a face up card, you’re taking it away from your opponents), the end-of-round goals (when playing on the green side of the goal mat), and quite a few bird cards that result in other players gaining food, drawing cards, etc.

      An easy test for player interaction is to ask yourself, “Could all actions be taken simultaneously, scaled to any player count?” If the answer is no, there’s at least some player interaction in the game.

      What I think you’re asking for–and what most people seem to mean when they ask for “more player interaction”–is more *direct conflict*. That simply isn’t what Wingspan is about; it is, after all, a game about managing a bird sanctuary. :)

      1. I love the lack of conflict in this game. The fact that it is peaceful with some player interaction make this game wonderful for me and my husband. I noticed that there is a card that steals food from another player, but at least that player can get something from the bird feeder. I hope we will see some additional creative ways to expand on the game. My biggest fear is that the game will go into the “steal a bid from someone / kill a bird on someone’s tableau / destroy eggs of your opponent / etc” route. Please, don’t make this game a mean game.

        1. We won’t, Sylvia–Wingspan isn’t meant to be a game with conflict. There is tension and many reasons to pay attention to other players, but it’s not a game in which players can hurt each other, and it won’t ever be.

  286. I have only just seen this (as I have just got Wingspan for my birthday – what a fantastic game!), so I have put my name on the list and donated separately. Great to see your support.

    1. house rule to increase interaction: leave your objective cards on display.
      i would love to see a dinosaur reskin of the base game, or dinosaur expansion, sans birds. my sons and i would love it, for both the game and for its educational value. thank you all for bringing more wingspan to the table.

  287. So excited! I got Wingspan this past Christmas and love it. I just got the European expansion a couple days ago, but I can’t wait for Oceania just for the fact that it probably will have budgerigars in it!

  288. Congratulations on the generous donation. I just looked up Oceania on Wikipedia because I was not sure which countries were officially in Oceania. There are so many fascinating birds in that area! You ciuld easily double the number of cards th ine game with all the birds in Oceania! Can’t wait!

  289. Cool stuff Jamey, very chuffed to see a game featuring NZ birds! Question; do you need the European expansion to play with this one or can you buy just the base game and the Oceania expansion?

  290. I was tempted to enter my personal email address, my work address, my alternate address, and that email address I never use but still have. That would have been a bit evil. Instead, I’m going to go find a place where I can donate those dollars myself!

    Thanks for helping in Australia and for leaking the next expansion!

  291. The European really improved upon the game, and I love the new end of round effects along with birds that can be played sideways and eagles that can be paid for with cards. Curious what the Oceania expansion can add at this point. Will there be a new effect/color on birds?

    1. Right now we’re just focused on the charitable support. We’ll discuss details of the expansion via the regular schedule.

  292. Amazing! I cannot wait!

    I don’t know if I am alone with this opinion, but I could do it without another plastic insert for the cards. A pack of cards would be sufficient for me and it would also reduce shipping volume, plastic waste, etc.

      1. If the Oceania expansion will add as many cards as the European expansion, and a person only buys Wingspan + Oceania, then they will likely have too many cards to fit inside the original tray.

        Now I know you’d never let such a thing happen, so I’m considering this a miniscule clue regarding what kind of content Oceania will add to the game. :)

        Looking forward to it!

        1. Ah no, the european expansion fits completely in the original tray, so you only need the “european” tray for the other expansions

          1. That depends on whether you sleeve cards or not. I’m always sleeving all my games, and the base game and EE fills both trays to the brim. If not for the lids, the top cards wouldn’t even stay in the trays. And I’m not using Fantasy Flight thickness or anything like that. I use Arcane Tinmen, because they’re solid, yet not too thick. Some storing issues will certainly arise with the OE…

  293. Very excited! This is the expansion I wanted most. I am fascinated by the birds in Australia & New Zealand, having taken a couple of business trips there in the past few years.

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