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
- Chestnut-capped BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-capped BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-capped Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-capped PihaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-capped PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-capped WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-collared SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-collared SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crested AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crested CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crowned AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crowned BecardDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-crowned GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-eared AracariDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-fronted MacawDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-headed ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-headed CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-headed NunletDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-headed OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-marked SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-naped AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-rumped WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-shouldered AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-throated Huet-huetDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-throated SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-throated SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-tipped ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-vented ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-winged ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-winged CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-winged HookbillDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut's slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Chevroned Waterhyacinth WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Chiapas WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Chical nubulous stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Chicken tickDeep Cut85points
- Chico Mendes' terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Chico's TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- ChiggerDeep Cut85points
- Chigoe fleaDeep Cut85points
- Chiguanco ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Chilca marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Child's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Chile four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Chile mountain false toadDeep 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.