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Gone Birding!
DescriptionGone Birding! Video Adventure in Bird Identification is a niche boardgame directed at the birdwatching/birding community that combines board game action with real-world bird identification skills. It includes:
There are three different skill levels accommodated by the game: "novice" where, for example, just identifying a bird as a "hawk" is an acceptable answer, "birder" where you must get the exact species named like "Red-tailed Hawk" and "Expert" who must provide not only the species name but also the Latin scientific genera "Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo." This lets people of all ages and bird identification abilities play together. To play the game, 6 Hotspot cards and 1 Rare-Bird Alert cards are dealt to each player. The group must decide which season in which to play the game as different seasons produce different numbers of birds at the various Hotspots. Then each player must plan out her route on the gameboard to visit the 6 Hotspots in their hand. Players start at the Hotspot closest to their actual real-world location. Then players watch the first Video Trip. The video is paused between trips while the players write down their identifications of the 10-12 different species shown on their Video Trip Field Notes pad, in order of the bird's appearance. Video "hosts" tell you where in the country you are and what season it is before the trips begin, which helps skilled players pare down the possible choices of species. The video can be replayed if players need more time to work on their IDs. After everyone is satisfied with their identifications, they read them aloud and one player checks the IDs with the answer section of the instruction booklet. Players get a point for each correct ID they make. Then, taking turns clockwise, players move their tokens around the board one Hotspot space at a time and announce the number of species they can add to their Trip List as determined by the card's "species table," which varies according to season. If you end up having to visit the same Hotspot more than once in order to get to another Hotspot card, you'll receive a smaller number of points for each successive trip. At the end of each round, a Surprise card is drawn and read aloud. It may affect all, some or none of the players. You can also play a Rare-Bird-Alert card against one of your opponents to send them off their planned course chasing after the bird listed on the card. The game ends after six Video Trips and six rounds on the gameboard are played. Points on players Trip Lists are then tallied and the player with the most number of species on their Trip List wins. As a final note, bird taxonomy and nomenclature are constantly changing as scientists learn more about avian species. This game specifies that their answers are based on the 1983 American Ornithologists' Union "Check-List of North American Birds" which is of course now, in the year 2006, significantly out of date. Game DiscussionsAdd CommentYou need to be logged in to comment. Insert Bullet List Please enter at least one item. Item: Item: Item: Item: Item: Insert Numeric List Please enter at least one item. Item: Item: Item: Item: Item: Insert Link Please enter the link of the website Optionally you can add display text Insert Email Please enter the email address Optionally add any display text Insert Image Please enter the link of the image Insert YouTube Video Please enter the link of the video MarketplaceNo listings at the moment. Do you own this game? Click here to list it for sale.
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