This is a Wingspan Content guide is to visually help you understand all the expansions and content for Wingspan. This isn’t a review of Wingspan but a guide to its current and future products. The goal is to help inform buyers of which content to get whether if its the first purchase or adding content to collections. Thanks to Elizabeth Hargrave for designing this wonderful game.
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Terminology
Base – The original box. When first released it didn’t include the Swift-Start Promo Pack. However the base game has been updated to include them.
Expansion – Most of the content is released through expansions. This adds more content to the base but cannot be used to play Wingspan on its own. Players must own the base Wingspan game or standalone content.
Standalone – An expansion that doesn’t require the base Wingspan game to play. This can be purchased and played on its own. Also Expansions can be added to it again without the base game being necessary.
Promo – This is content that is sold as an upgrade to the game or an extra. It isn’t considered core content for the game.
Fan Content – Unofficial content made by fans of the game and released as downloadable files to print.
Content Limitations
Base Wingspan or Wingspan Asia is required to play all expansion content.
Base Wingspan and Asia are required to play the official 6-7 players mode.
Core Content Overview
Wingspan
Release Date: 2018
Base Wingspan or Wingspan Asia is required to play all expansion content. Base Wingspan and Asia are required to play the official 6-7 players mode.
Includes
- 170 unique North American bird cards
- 10 unique bird cards in the swift-start teaching guide (Not included in the Original January-August 2019 Version)
- 75 egg miniatures
- 103 food tokens
- 5 custom wooden dice
- 1 birdfeeder dice tower
- 2-piece custom tray (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in older photos and videos)
- 5 player mats
*Game Includes more items then listed above. List is for main gameplay items.
European Expansion
Release Date: November 22, 2019
New Gameplay
The European Expansion adds a new bird power, End of the Round power. This power only activates at the end of each round before round goals are scored, giving an extra opportunities
Includes
- 81 European bird cards
- 15 egg miniatures (purple)
- 5 bonus cards
- 1 custom tray with lid (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in photos and in older videos)
- 5 goal tiles
*Game Includes more items then listed above. List is for main gameplay items.
Oceania Expansion
Release Date: October 28, 2020
New Gameplay
The Oceania Expansion adds End of Game bird powers and also a new nectar resource. End of Game power allows players to earn extra points after the final round bonus scores are completed. Nectar acts as a wild resource, making it easier to play bird cards.
Includes
- 95 Oceania bird cards
- 15 egg miniatures (yellow)
- 5 player mats (featuring new nectar gameplay)
- 5 wooden dice (featuring nectar resource)
- 69 nectar tokens
- 4 goal tiles
- 5 bonus cards
*Game Includes more items then listed above. List is for main gameplay items.
Asia Standalone Expansion
Release Date: November 2, 2022
New Gameplay
Wingspan Asia adds a 1-2 Player Duet Mode standalone game and a 6-7 player Flock Mode expansion that requires base Wingspan to play. All the components needed to play Wingspan are included in this standalone game; dice, resources, eggs, bonus tiles, bonus cards, etc.
Base Wingspan is not needed to play this game at 1 or 2 players.
Includes
- 90 Asian bird cards
- 2 player mats (double-sided with standard and Oceania sides)
- Duet mode (2 players): 1 duet map, 6 goal tiles, 30 duet tokens, and 2 swift-start guides
- Flock mode (6-7 players): 1 turn-order dial, 1 round-end goal board
- 30 egg tokens (wooden)
- 5 food dice
- 1 birdfeeder board
- 1 bird tray
- 14 bonus cards
*Game Includes more items then listed above. List is for main gameplay items.
Content Comparison
| Wingspan (North America) | European | Oceania | Asia | Coming 2025 | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Expansion | Expansion | Standalone + Expansion | Type | |
| 180 bird cards | 81 bird cards | 95 bird cards | 90 bird cards | Bird Cards | |
| 26 bonus cards | 5 bonus cards | 5 bonus cards | 14 bonus cards | Bonus Cards | |
| 8 goal tiles | 5 goal tiles | 4 goal tiles | 6 goal tiles (for Duet Mode) | Goal Tiles | |
| 75 egg miniatures | 15 egg miniatures (purple) | 15 egg miniatures (yellow) | 30 egg tokens (wooden) | Eggs | |
| 5 player mats | N/A | 5 player mats (nectar) | 2 player mats (double sided) | Player Mats | |
| 103 food tokens | 38 food tokens | 69 nectar tokens | 81 food tokens | Food Tokens | |
| 5 wooden dice | – | 5 wooden dice (with nectar) | 5 wooden dice | Dice | |
| 1 birdfeeder dice tower | – | – | 1 birdfeeder board | Bird Feeder | |
| 1 bird tray with lid | 1 bird tray with lid | – | 1 bird tray board | Card Trays | |
| 1 score pad | 1 score pad | 1 score pad | 1 score pad | Score Pad | |
| – | End of Round | End of Game, Nectar | Duet Mode, *Flock Mode | New Gameplay | |
| 16 Automa cards | – | 7 Automa cards | 18 Automa cards | Automa (solo mode) | |
| – | – | Automarazzi (1-4 Players) | – | Automarazzi (Cooperative) |
*Flock Mode requires both Wingspan base game and Wingspan Asia to play. Wingspan base game or Wingspan Asia is required to play Wingspan. All content can be added to either of those to play the game.
Next Expansion
We know that Stonemaier games plans to release content for each of the 7 continents of the world. We can look forward to seeing Africa, Central & South America, and Antarctica in the future.
Which Continent is the next Wingspan Expansion?
We currently do not know this information as it hasn’t been announced yet.
When is the next Wingspan Expansion?
According to Jamey Stegmaier the next expansion should come out late 2024 or 2025.
Which Expansion Should I buy?
If you plan to mostly play at 1-2 players Wingspan Asia is the perfect pick. However if you are hoping to play with higher player counts it is recommended to get the Wingspan base game.
It depends on what kind of content you want to add to the game. In general I’d recommend just buying them in the release order unless you have specific needs like playing at 6-7 players, then get Asia next. Or if you find playing birds annoyingly hard and expensive, Oceania’s Nectar resource will make it easier to play birds.
Cards
Swift-Start Promo
This promo pack adds 10 starter birds for the Swift-Start Mode to help players more quickly and easily learn then game in a turn by turn tutorial. This was an upgrade pack to the first version of Wingspan for those who bought the game before it was included in the base box. Most available copies of Wingspan will have this content included.
Grus japonensis
How to get the promo card?
This Promo came with the 1st edition of Wingspan Chinese edition.
About the Card
This card illustrates the Chinese national bird, the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).
Illustration by 沈銓(Shen Quan) in Autumn 1757.
Shen Quan is known as the most famous painter of the red-crowned crane in Chinese Qing Dynasty.
Vision Friendly Cards
These packs–one for the core game and one per expansion–offer a more accessible version of the bird cards in Wingspan. This is also a way to buy just the cards from a certain set. – Publisher Description
Fan Art Pack
Over 300 Wingspan fans submitted illustrations of their favorite birds in the game for the Wingspan Fan Art Challenge, and we selected 255 illustrations–each by a different artist–in a variety of styles. The end result is a large pack of bird cards–mechanically identical to their counterparts in Wingspan and the Europe, Oceania, and Asia expansions–to add a special burst of flavor to tabletops worldwide.
We donated a total of $25,000 ($1 per Wingspan fan art pack produced) to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the American Bird Conservancy, The Humane League, Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, and BirdLife International. – Publisher Description
Upgrades
Nesting Box
The Nesting Box is an organizer/storage box for all Wingspan content and cards (sleeved or unsleeved). This modular box is designed for all past, present, and future content. It does not include any gameplay content, and it is prepackaged for shipping, so no other items can be added to an order containing a single Nesting Box. – Publisher Description
Speckled Eggs
These 100 speckled eggs (10 egg tokens in 10 different color combinations) showcase some of the beautiful eggs created by birds of the world. They are are the same size, texture, and material as other Wingspan eggs in recent printings (Wingspan eggs were originally made of plastic, and we updated to more eco-friendly FSC-certified wooden eggs in 2022). – Publisher Description
Golden Eggs
These 30 golden eggs were created for the Stonemaier Games 2023 Charity Auction. For each egg set sold, Stonemaier Games vows to donate $10 divided between the 10 charities selected for the auction.
Rubber Mats
The Wingspan rubber playmate is double-sided feature the original and Oceania version for playing with Nectar.
Non-Game Content
Puzzle
Stonemaier games has released three puzzles featuring the art and birds from Wingspan. 500, 1000 & a1500 piece puzzle.
Celebrating Birds book
This is a beginner birding book featuring the birds and art from Wingspan by Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez, the original artist of the game.
This book is not a Stonemaier Wingspan product but it was released by the artist’s who did all the bird art in the game with permission from Jamey Stegmaier.
Fan Content
Taxonomic Historian Bonus Card
BGG user SankofaBird has made a new fan bonus card in reaction to the news that the names will be changed on many of the bird cards. This will in some way preserve the Historian Bonus card by having it focus on the birds taxonomic name instead. He has created multiple versions depending on up to which expansion is being used.
Frogmouth Fan Pack
A 15-card expansion made by Travis Willse, featuring 14 species of frogmouths and one bonus card. It was originally available as a free download however Stonemaier games asked Travis to remove the files. (Perhaps this means there will be an official release of some kind in the future.)
Extinct Fan Expansion (In-Progress)
BGG user SankofaBird posted about making an “Extinct” Fan Expansion. He has posted his ideas and progress in a Google Doc (see below). Jamey did replay to a different thread posted by Peter Tutton about his ideas for Extinct Birds & a Seasons Expansion Idea.
Thanks Peter! I’m particularly excited about making an extinct birds promo pack at some point, and I like the ideas you mention here. I’ll make a note of them for Elizabeth to see (crediting you).
Jamey Stegmaier
It looks like we might still get more content even after the core 7 continents are all finished.
Oceania Teal Pack
A 25 bird cards, all new birds from Oceania region, each with a new, unique teal (round end) powers
Digital Adaptions
Phone App
$9.99
Includes:
✓Wingspan
BGA
Requires premium or play with premium user to play for free.
Includes:
✓Wingspan
Tabletop Simulator
Free after purchase of Tabletop Simulator. Content is available unofficially in the Workshop.
Includes:
✓Wingspan
✓European Expansion
✓Oceania Expansion
✓Asia Expansion
Tabletopia
Requires Premium Membership
Includes:
✓Wingspan
✓European Expansion
✓Oceania Expansion
✓Asia Expansion
All pricing is in USD.
Apps and Websites
Wingsong allows users to scan Wingspan cards while playing to hear the sounds of the bird they just played. Available for free on the App Store or Play Store.
Wingsearch is a website that allows you to sort and search for any card featured in Wingspan. Go to Website.
Wingsplain is a fan website all about Wingspan featuring reviews and tier lists. Go to Website
Wing Creator is a website that allows users to make their own Wingspan cards! Create Now
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