Episode 2: whistling ducks, the most powerful card type, and a surprising chicken

Adam and Aidan are back!

This week they discuss their bird of the week , the most powerful card types , and they are visited by a surprise chicken 🐔 listen now to find out more!

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Bird notes below

Episode two opening hand:

https://imgur.com/a/opening-hand-review-ep-2-JvnQXJK

Opening hand:

• Common Sandpiper. When activated: draw 1 card for each bird in your wetlands with an egg on it. Keep 1 and discard the rest.
• Sri Lanka Blue-Magpie. Round end: you may cache 1 food from your supply on each of your other birds.
• Greylag Goose. Round end: this bird counts double towards the end-of-round goal, if it qualifies.
• Desert Finch. When played: lay 1 egg on this bird for each other bird in your grasslands.
• Wrybill. When played: look through all discarded bonus cards. Keep 1 of them.

Bonus cards:

• Grassland ranger: consecutive birds in the grasslands with ascending or descending scores. 3 birds = 3 points, 4 birds = 5 points, 5 birds = 8 points.
• Forester: birds that can only live in the forest. 3-4 birds = 4 points, 5 birds = 8 points

In the tray:

• Green Heron. When activated: trade one food for any other food from the supply.
• Desert Wheatear. When activated: for each bird in your grasslands with an egg on it, roll any one dice. Choose 1 type of food that you rolled and gain 1 of that food from the supply.
• Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. When activated: gain 1 worm from the supply.

Lookahead to episode three:

https://imgur.com/a/opening-hand-review-ep-3-CVmX6cP

Opening hand:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker. When activated: gain one worm or wheat from the birdfeeder, if there is one.
• Gould’s Finch. Game end: play a bird. Pay its normal food and egg cost. If it has a when played or game end power, you may use it.
• Chimney Swift. When activated: if this bird is to the right of all other birds in its habitat, move it to another habitat.
• Brolga. When activated: choose one other player. They lay 1 egg, you draw 2 cards.
• Little Pied Cormorant. Game end: lay one egg on each of your birds with a sticks nest, including this one.

Bonus cards:

• Breeding Manager. Birds with at least 4 eggs laid on them. 1 point per bird.
• Prairie Manager. Birds that can only live in the grasslands. 4+ birds = 8 points

In the tray:

• Baird’s Sparrow. When activated: lay 1 egg on any bird.
• Olive-backed Sunbird. When activated: each player may roll any one die and gain that food from the supply.
• Savi’s Warbler. When activated: draw 2 cards. All other players draw one card from the deck.