Krillion Recorded answers
434 recorded answers
How to approach it
Set a working threshold first: a typical adult chicken weighs roughly two kilos, so aim for birds whose adults clearly pass three or four. Then sweep the whole class in size bands rather than trusting whatever names surface: flightless ground runners, long-legged wading birds, bulky waterfowl, the largest hunting birds, heavy ground-dwelling game birds, and the outsized outliers hiding in otherwise modest families. Within each band, commit to a real species or a recognised domestic breed, because an exact name scores better than a loose family label. Finish by checking the mass against a reference figure and dropping anything that wins on wingspan or height alone. Working band by band and then alphabetically mirrors how the official reveal appears to be built and keeps you from stopping at the first plausible name.
Get a hint
Size is comparative, so start from the reference bird's adult weight and climb through the class's heaviest body plans: flightless runners, long-legged waders and bulky waterfowl.
A little more
Then narrow by habitat rather than by memory: marshes, coasts, cold plateaus and tropical canopies each shelter species several times heavier than the reference.
One step further
Finally, commit to one precise name — a full species, a recognised domestic breed or a well-defined regional form — and check adult mass, not wingspan or standing height.
Reveal answers 434
- Northern Rockhopper PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Northern Royal AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Northern ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Nubian BustardDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated TurkeyDeep Cut85points
- Okarito KiwiDeep Cut85points
- OpenbillDeep Cut85points
- Oriental DarterDeep Cut85points
- Oriental StorkDeep Cut85points
- Osceola wild turkeyDeep Cut85points
- Otago ShagDeep Cut85points
- Pacific LoonDeep Cut85points
- Padovana gooseDeep Cut85points
- Painted StorkDeep Cut85points
- Pallas's Fish-eagleDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PelicanDeep Cut85points
- Pharaoh Eagle-owlDeep Cut85points
- Pilgrim gooseDeep Cut85points
- Pink-backed PelicanDeep Cut85points
- Pink-footed GooseDeep Cut85points
- Plain-pouched HornbillDeep Cut85points
- Pomeranian gooseDeep Cut85points
- Puna FlamingoDeep Cut85points
- Puna RheaDeep Cut85points
- Purple HeronDeep Cut85points
- RatiteDeep Cut85points
- Razor-billed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-green MacawDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed VultureDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged SeriemaDeep Cut85points
- Rhinoceros HornbillDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande wild turkeyDeep Cut85points
- Romagnola gooseDeep Cut85points
- Roman gooseDeep Cut85points
- Rouen duckDeep Cut85points
- Royal AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Royal Palm turkeyDeep Cut85points
- Royal SpoonbillDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-necked HornbillDeep Cut85points
- Saddle-billed StorkDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Sanford's Sea EagleDeep Cut85points
- Sarus CraneDeep Cut85points
- Saxony duckDeep Cut85points
- Sclater's crowned pigeonDeep Cut85points
- Sclater's MonalDeep Cut85points
- ScreamerDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring splits cleanly into three tiers, and the pattern is precision. The single 100-point answer is a rare, sharply defined species that almost nobody else names, which is what the top of the curve rewards. The 290 answers on 85 points are overwhelmingly exact species or formal breed names — Abbott's Booby, Abdim's Stork, Alagoas Curassow, Amsterdam Albatross — each specific enough to be unambiguous and unusual enough to stay scarce. The 117 answers on 60 points are the ones a crowd reaches for first: familiar family words or common species that many players submit at once, so the rarity bonus shrinks. Nothing here rewards being merely correct; a hen-sized bird list is easy to fill, so the reveal is really a test of how deep into the taxonomic catalogue you can go while keeping the name exact. Add a qualifier, a place-derived epithet or a breed designation, and the pick usually moves up a tier.