Oceania Achievement Guide

Suggestions on how to achieve the 11 new Wingspan, Oceania Expansion achievements.

A Real Know-it-owl: Oceania

Play each of the 95 new Oceania birds at least once.

Difficulty: Easy (long)
Decks: EE and OE

Pretty straight forward. Start with a list of the birds in some sort of tracking software (Excel / Word).

Ongoing progress can be checked by using the [Birds] function (middle bottom of main screen), then filter (upper right hand control) and selecting just the [Oceania Expansion] (not the [Wingspan Base Game]; [Swift Start]; or [European Expansion] options) on the lower row. Keep power colors, habitat; facing; nesting; food; and unlocked bird options all unchecked. Sort alphabetically (AB^ or ABv).

Create games with 5 local human players (cooperative). Turn on just European Expansion and Oceania Expansion to make the OE cards appear more frequently. Set up cooperative powers (give all players 1 nectar; give another player an egg and draw 2 more cards and the like).
Set up each player with at least one water bird to not only draw 2 cards, but also to frequently flush the current face up cards and draw fresh ones. With a bit of patience and persistence, it will be completed. Note: Your account gets credit regardless of which 'human' player plays a particular bird.

The new birds are:

Abbot’s Booby
Australasian Pipit
Australasian Shoveler
Australian Ibis
Australian Magpie
Australian Owlet Nightjar
Australian Raven
Australian Reed Warbler
Australian Shelduck
Australian Zebra Finch
Black Noddy
Black Swan
Black-Shouldered Kite
Blyth’s Hornbill
Brolga
Brown Falcon
Budgerigar
Cockatiel
Count Raggi’s Bird of Paradise
Crested Pigeon
Crimson Chat
Eastern Rosella
Eastern Whipbird
Emu
Galah
Golden Headed Cisticola
Gould’s Finch
Green Pygmy Goose
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Shrikethrush
Grey Teal
Grey Warbler
Grey-Headed Mannikin
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo
Horsfield’s Bushlark
Kakapo
Kea
Kelp Gull
Kereru
Korimako
Laughing Kookaburra
Lesser Frigatebird
Lewin’s Honeyeater
Little Penguin
Little Pied Cormorant
Magpie-Lark
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Malleefowl
Maned Duck
Many-Colored Fruit Dove
Masked Lapwing
Mistletoebird
Musk Duck
New Holland Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
North Island Brown Kiwi
Orange-Footed Scrubfowl
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pesquet’s Parrot
Pheasant Coucal
Pink-Eared Duck
Plains-Wanderer
Princess Stephanie’s Astrapia
Pukeko
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Red-Backed Fairywren
Red-Capped Robin
Red-Necked Avocet
Red-Winged Parrot
Regent Bowerbird
Royal Spoonbill
Rufous Night Heron
Rufous Owl
Rufous-Banded Honeyeater
Sacred Kingfisher
Silvereye
South Island Robin
Southern Cassowary
Spangled Drongo
Splendid Fairywren
Spotless Crake
Stubble Quail
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Superb Lyrebird
Tawny Frogmouth
Tui
Wedge-Tailed Eagle
Welcome Swallow
White Bellied Sea Eagle
White-Breasted Woodswallow
White-Faced Heron
Willie Wagtail
Wrybill

All Birds, Aligned!

Play 5 birds in one habitat with beaks pointing in the same direction.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE (makes getting birds w/ beak in one direction EoR goal more frequent)

Set up a 5 local player game (cooperative). Pick a habitat and a beak direction. NOTE: This achievement is easier if one of the two beak direction end of round goals are active. In that case, there is a beak facing icon added to each bird.

Designate one player as the one working on the goal. Whenever a bird comes up in the tray that matches the goal criteria, leave that bird for the chosen one.

Focus on each player having 1 bird in the wetlands and keep flushing the tray until the designated player has their 5 birds.

By Our Powers Combined

Play 5 birds with different power types/colors in one habitat.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

Set up a 5 local player game (cooperative).

Designate one player as the one working on the goal. Whenever a bird comes up in the tray that matches the goal criteria, leave that bird for the chosen one.

Focus on each player having 1 bird in the wetlands and keep flushing the tray until the designated player has their 5 birds.

You are looking for

• Yellow (End of Game)
  
• Teal (End of Round)
  
• Pink (triggers on another player's action-look for a power that gives you extra eggs or food )
  
• Brown (triggers on action)
  
• White (immediate)

Fly me to the Moor

Send the Tui or Super Lyrebird (SL) to the grassland habitat by copying a migratory bird power.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: Base (required for migration birds) and OE (required for Tui or Super-Lyrebird).

Slightly different approach than the other achievements.

Set up a two local human game with just the Base Game and Oceania Expansion.
One player will be the Tui/SL player and the other the trigger migration player.

Keep an eye out for either the Tui or SL and a bird that allows migration if it is kept to the right of habitat. Keep flushing the tray until one of each shows up. Make sure you keep at least one grassland spot open for the Tui/SL player.

Migration birds are:

• Bewick's Wren
  
• Blue Grosbeak
  
• Chimney Swift
  
• Common Nighthawk
  
• Lincoln's Sparrow
  
• Song Sparrow
  
• White-Crowned Sparrow
  
• Yellow-Breasted Chat

Once one player has a migration bird and the other a Tui or Super Lyrebird:

The trigger migration player first plays the migration bird in the forest.
Then the Tui/SL player places their bird in the forest.
Then the trigger migration player gets eggs or birds (does anything except get food / move bird).
Finally, the Tui/SL player

• gets food
  
• triggers the migration power
  
• moves the Tui/SL into the grassland
  
• profit (collects the achievement).

Global Analyst

Score all three Analyst bonus cards (Forest, Grassland and Wetland) in one game.

Difficulty: Hard (requires some luck)
Decks: EE and OE

Start with 5 local human players (cooperative). It is best if one player starts with one of the 3 bonus cards.
Birds to look out for (in addition to the standard draw 2, discard 1 goal birds):

• Kakapo (Game End) Draw 4 bonus cards, keep 1, discard the other 3.
  
• Abbott's Booby (when played) Draw 3 bonus cards, then discard 2. You may discard bonus cards you did not draw this turn.
  
• Kea (when played) Draw 1 bonus card + any number of additional bonus cards at a cost of 1 card per food. Keep 1 card.
  
• North Island Brown Kiwi (when played) Discard a bonus card, draw 4, keep 2.
  
• Plains-Wanderer (when played) Draw 1 bonus card for each bird in your grasslands. Keep 1 and discard the rest.
  
• (*) Wrybill (when played). Look through all discarded bonus cards. Keep 1 of them.

(*) The Wrybill is extremely important for this achievement. In all these draw X discard Y actions, if you start with one of the 3, and then get the second, but have to discard the third (or one of the other starting players discarded the third at the beginning), then the Wrybill allows you to get the last bonus card. The achievement triggers if you score at least 3 points on each card - so you can correct course if you place a huge bird followed by a tiny bird (or vice versa). You only need a string of 3 in each habitat.

Mellow Yellow

Win a game with five or more GAME END powers.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE


Similar strategy for All Birds, Aligned! and By Our Powers Combined.

Set up a 5 local player game (cooperative).

Designate one player as the one working on the goal. Whenever a bird comes up in the tray that matches the goal criteria, leave that bird for the chosen one.

Focus on each player having 1 bird in the wetlands and keep flushing the tray until the designated player has their 5 birds.

The only difference between this and the others is that this achievement requires winning the game, so you can tank the other players and ensure that the designate wins.

Nectar Jackpot

End the game with EXACTLY seven nectar spent in each habitat (777).

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

Just make sure you keep an eye on the totals. You can add nectar by either using them as food to pay for birds or as payment to active extra food / eggs / cards.

Nectar of Life

Win 1st place in all three habitats when scoring points for nectar spent.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

Can be achieved at the same time as Nectar Jackpot.

Sweet Tooth

Play five nectar-eating birds in a single habitat.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

Same strategy as All Birds, Aligned! and By Our Powers Combined.

The following habitats have birds that have nectar as a food cost:
Forest (15)
Grasslands (6)
Wetlands (3)

Therefore, it is best to use the Forest as the habitat to work in.

The birds of interest are:

• Eastern Rosella (FG)
  
• Kea (FG)
  
• Kereru (F)
  
• Korimako (F)
  
• Lewin's HoneyEater (F)
  
• MistleToeBird (F)
  
• Noisy Miner (FG)
  
• Pesquet's Parrot (F)
  
• Rainbow Lorikeet (F)
  
• Red WattleBird (F)
  
• Red-Winged Parrot (FGW)
  
• Rufous-Banded HoneyEater (FW)
  
• SilverEye (FGW)
  
• Spangled Drongo (F)
  
• Tui (F)

The New Holland HoneyEater (G) is a nectar-eating bird, but they only live in the Grasslands and therefore is one of 6 birds available.

The Tuckinator

Tuck at least 50 cards under one bird.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

See my write up in the European Achievement Guide for the Full Tuck! Achievement.

With a starting Flamingo, I was able to exceed 50 tucked cards by the end of round 2.

Unflappable

Play three flightless birds in one game.

Difficulty: Easy
Decks: EE and OE

Same strategy as All Birds, Aligned; By Our Powers Combined; Mellow Yellow; and Sweet Tooth.

Keep flushing the tray until 3 of the 5 following birds show up:

• Emu
  
• Kakapo
  
• Little Penguin
  
• North Island Brown Kiwi
  
• Southern Cassowary

[Kamitukawa Maroglo]

Hey, TheKirkSmirk was right, that works at least in mine game, so it looks like there really is a catch with rows. Or maybe just bug

[Booja]

Ditto - I did this today and didn't get the achievement

[Pinkish]

I played 3 flightless birds (Little Penguin, Kakapo, Emu) and didn't get the achievement :( is this a bug? can anyone confirm?

[TheKirkSmirk]

in reference to the others with unflappable, I play them all in the same row and got the achievement

[Kamitukawa Maroglo]

Same problem with Unflappable achievement, got Emu+Kakapo+North Island Brown Kiwi and...nothing

[Ermintar]

Anyone faced Unflappable achievement not being triggered?

I've collected twice a combo of Emu+Kakapo+Southern Cassowary, but with no result