Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Rufous MournerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Rufous NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Rufous PihaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous PotooDeep Cut85points
- Rufous SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous TwistwingDeep Cut85points
- Rufous WrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-and-white WrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-backed AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-backed Inca FinchDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-backed StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-backed TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-banded Crambid MothDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-banded MinerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-banded OwlDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied SeedsnipeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-bellied ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-booted Racket-tailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted HermitDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-breasted WrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-browed ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-browed HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-browed PeppershrikeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-browed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-brown SolitaireDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped NunletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-capped ThornbillDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-cheeked TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-chested DotterelDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-chested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-collared SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-crested CoquetteDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.