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-crested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-crowned AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-crowned ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-crowned GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-crowned Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-eared BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-faced AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-faced AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-faced CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-fronted AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-fronted GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-fronted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-fronted ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-fronted Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-gaped HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-headed ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-headed Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-headed WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-legged OwlDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-lored TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-margined AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-margined SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-naped GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-naped Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-necked Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-necked PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-necked Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-rumped AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-rumped SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-shafted WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-sided CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-sided Scrub-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-sided Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed HawkDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed PlantcutterDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-tailed XenopsDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-thighed HawkDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-thighed KiteDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-throated AntbirdDeep 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.