Celebrating Birds: An Interactive Field and Listening Guide Inspired by the Wingspan Game

Written by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez

Narrated by Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon and Laura Jennings

A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, 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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Text descriptions for bird species were provided with permission from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website, AllAboutBirds.org, Copyright © 2021 by Cornell University.

 Artists’ Foreword Copyright © 2021 by Natalia Rojas and Ana María Martínez

 Foreword Copyright © 2021 by Miyoko Chu

Introduction Copyright © 2021 by Elizabeth Hargrave

Afterword Copyright © 2021 by Jamey Stegmaier

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Apr 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9780063045545

Natalia Rojas

Natalia Rojas is a self-taught artist and illustrator from Colombia living in St. Louis, Mo. She specializes in highly detailed and realistic graphite and colored pencil drawings. Ana Maria Martinez studied fine arts, scientific illustrations, and watercolor at the University of Antioquia in Colombia, where she currently works as a professor.