SEEKING BIRDS
Learn the bird world around you in Bird Seeking!
Seventy-five different birds, five step-by-step levels help you recognize common birds in your daily life. Let’s go outdoors and start bird-watching!
GAME SCREENSHOT
ABOUT THIS GAME
One day, I walked around the lake. I heard a mother pointing at a waterfowl, telling her daughter to watch that 'duck'. When I saw that bird, I realized it was a little grebe. The only similarity between little grebe and duck is they are both floating on water. At this moment, I decided to do a project that helps people identify birds. For most people, Birds and their lives are two parallels. But when one knows the bird's name, what it looks like, and how it calls, the connection has been built. At every level of my game, I choose fifteen birds that look similar to each other, encouraging players to find the subtle differences between those birds. With those connections, Bird conversation can be easier promoted.
Game Flowchart & UI
GAME DEMO
DETAILS
In the first level, I chose common bird species around us. Usually, the first step of bird watching is the observation of birds in the backyard. Using these birds that people see every day as the initial level of the game would resonate with people and encourage them to notice birds in their daily life.
Light-vented Bulbul
White-browed Laughingthrush
Black-throated
Laughingthrush
Crested Myna
Chinese Blackbird
Oriental Magpie Robin
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow
Azure-winged Magpie
Eurasian Jay
Red-billed Blue Magpie
Eurasian Magpie
White-rumped Munia
Oriental Turtle Dove
Spotted Dove
Rivers and lakes are unique places in the city, they provide habitats for aquatic birds and wading birds. Herons, cormorants, and kingfishers are birds usually found by rivers and lakes. They have different predator strategies, it is very interesting to observe them waiting, flying and swimming.
White-throated Kingfisher
Black-capped Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Great Egrent
Little Egrent
Intermediate Egrent
Purple Egrent
Great Bittern
Yellow Bittern
Striated Heron
Blacke-crowned
Night Heron
Eastern Cattle Egrent
Chinese Pond Heron
Grey Heron
Great Cormorant
There are not only ducks in the water, but also many relatives of ducks and unrelated birds, such as rails and grebes. For waterfowls, a point worth observing is their differences in male and female looks. Also, males look very different during the breeding season. These are shown in game.
Little Grebe (br.)
Little Grebe (non-br.)
Great Crested Grebe (br.)
Great Crested Grebe (non-br.)
Common Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Ruddy Shelduck (M)
Ruddy Shelduck (F)
Mandarin Duck (br.M)
Mandarin Duck (F)
Mallard(M)
Mallard(F)
Eurasian Teal(M)
Eurasian Teal(F)
Chinese Spot-billed Duck
Generally speaking, raptors are at the top of the food chain. It sounds like those birds live in the mountains for enough food resources. In fact, many falcons and eagles have adapted to living next to human beings. These flying silhouettes are always found above the woodland around the city.
Common Kestrel
Merlin
Amur Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Western Osprey
Crested Serpent Eagle
Crested Goshawk
Besra
Northern Goshawk
Crested Honey Buzzard
Black-winged Kite
Black Eagle
Pied Harrier
Eastern Buzzard
In different cultures, owls were given different symbolic meanings. In nature, they are the killers of small mammals, insects, fish, and other birds. At night, when everything is quiet, the owls' showtime begins. They are so mysterious that most people never met them once.