Question 1

True or false: You can play a bird on top of another bird in the same habitat to gain a bonus egg.

Accepted Answer

False. Birds are placed in empty slots; you cannot stack them. The only stacking is for tucked cards or eggs on existing birds.

Question 2

True or false: In the base game, the Atlantic Puffin lays eggs in the forest habitat, not the grassland.

Accepted Answer

False. The Atlantic Puffin nests in the grassland habitat in Wingspan, reflecting its ground-burrowing habits.

Question 3

True or false: The 'Oceania Expansion' introduced new bird powers that allow you to discard dice to gain nectar tokens.

Accepted Answer

False. The Oceania Expansion added nectar tokens, but they are gained via specific bird powers, not by discarding dice directly.

Question 4

True or false: The raven in Wingspan is the only bird that can steal food from other players' birdfeeder dice pools.

Accepted Answer

True. Ravens and crows have a power that lets you take a die from the birdfeeder, mimicking their scavenging behavior.

Question 5

True or false: A single game of Wingspan uses exactly 170 bird cards, including all expansions.

Accepted Answer

True. With all expansions (up to Oceania), the total bird cards reach 170, though the base game has 170 without expansions.

Question 6

True or false: The designer Elizabeth Hargrave included the Wood Duck because it nests in tree cavities near water, matching its real-life behavior.

Accepted Answer

True. Hargrave researched each bird's ecology; the Wood Duck's power involves caching food, tied to its tree-hole nesting.

Question 7

True or false: There is a hidden bonus for having the most birds with the 'nocturnal' trait at the end of the game.

Accepted Answer

False. No such bonus exists; nocturnal birds only matter for specific round goals or end-of-round scoring tiles.

Question 8

True or false: The game's original artwork for the Common Loon was changed because it looked too similar to a real photograph.

Accepted Answer

True. An early prototype used a photographic reference, but the final art was re-illustrated to avoid copyright issues.

Wingspan Trivia Questions