Celebrating Birds, Natalia Rojas
Celebrating Birds, Natalia Rojas
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Celebrating Birds
An Interactive Field and Listening Guide Inspired by the Wingspan Game

Author: Natalia Rojas, Ana Maria Martinez

Narrator: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Laura Jennings

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/06/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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 ChuIntroduction Copyright © 2021 by Elizabeth HargraveAfterword Copyright © 2021 by Jamey Stegmaier

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rae (Rachel) on April 09, 2021

This book is a must have for any novice or expert birdwatcher! So fun and the illustrations are gorgeous!......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 25, 2021

Beautiful book. This is a great guide for learning basic info about these birds in the Americas. I love the little touches of random facts. The fact that they created a little bird watching game akin to Wingspan the board game is very cute. What a fun idea. My only wish is that these brilliant artis......more

Goodreads review by Tenika on January 10, 2025

Got this audiobook as an accompaniment to the board game, Wingspan. It's fantastic if you love birbs, lol. There is an introduction for the authors, but otherwise, it's ~2min segments of birdcalls, then the bird name, stats and information, including a "Cool fact!" at the end. Delightful. You can le......more

Goodreads review by Megan on May 31, 2021

If you enjoy bird watching and learning about birds mostly in North America, I highly recommend checking out this book. Full of beautiful illustrations, brief history about some of the birds and interesting facts, it was such a fun book to read and learn new things about some of the birds and learn a......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on August 07, 2021

Beautiful and informative! I love the artwork so much, I borrowed this book from the library but I might need to get my own copy🤓💕 the only thing I didn’t like was that there were no maps for the birds ranges, I don’t know if it can be called a field guide without that. Regardless, I enjoyed it very......more