🕹️ How to play

• 🐟 Feed: hold your finger on the water and Bomi walks there, sweeping its spoon bill. When the bill touches a fish, snap!
• Walk slowly: fast steps scare the fish away. Dark blue water is too deep for Bomi's legs.
• 🕊️ Fly: touch where you want Bomi to fly. Land in the green wetlands to rest and eat, and fly around the gray rain clouds.

Keyboard: ← → to walk or turn.

🔬 Is it real?

Black-faced spoonbills really sweep their bills side to side and catch fish by touch, mostly at dusk and at night. They really wade only in shallow water, and Tainan's fish farmers really drain their ponds after the harvest, leaving little fish behind. Most nest on islands off Korea, and many fly south on the northeast monsoon, resting at wetlands in China along the way.

Game note: the trip is much shorter than the real one (about 1,200 km), the map is simplified, and the fish and spoonbills are drawn bigger. Real spoonbills fly in flocks. Bomi's face is pretend, and nothing gets hurt.

🪶 Read the story

Why do spoonbills fly to Taiwan every winter? How did they come back from only 288 birds? Read Bomi the Black-faced Spoonbill first.