Celebrating Birds: An Interactive Field Guide Featuring Art from Wingspan
by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez
From Harper Design:
A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.
Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international sensation, available in a dozen languages and selling more than 200,000 copies its first year. Celebrating Birds is the ultimate companion to the game for fans, as well as a beautiful and in-depth field guide for avian and nature enthusiasts.
In addition to large-size representations of each bird and the most up-to-date bird descriptions provided by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Celebrating Birds includes a step-by-step guide that can be used to take the game into the real world. Players can collect points based on the birds, nests, and various habitat and feeding clues they find outside.
Artists and best friends Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez collaborated to create the beautiful depictions featured in the original Wingspan board game. Celebrating Birds features larger illustrations of the 170 North American birds from the game, plus eleven exciting new birds.
With Celebrating Birds, players and amateur naturalists can discover details about many of the birds currently at risk for extinction. As the number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined precipitously, Celebrating Birds is a fun way to raise awareness, educate, encourage activism, and provide resources on some of the most important ecological issues facing us today.
This book is born out of Wingspan, an extremely popular and highly-rated board game. I haven’t played the game myself, but it’s one that I would love to try out. The game uses cards for various birds, illustrated with some beautiful artwork. That art is reproduced in this book, in a much larger, easier-to-appreciate size. Accompanying the art is some basic information about the bird, pulled from Cornell’s All About Birds. This book is perfect for players of the game who would like to learn more about these birds and who may be interested in seeing them in real life.
Celebrating Birds: An Interactive Field Guide Featuring Art from Wingspan
by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez
Hardcover; 352 pages
Harper Design; April 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780063045743
$29.99
Posted by Grant McCreary on February 24th, 2021.
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