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
- Sebastopol gooseDeep Cut85points
- SeriemaDeep Cut85points
- Sharp-tailed IbisDeep Cut85points
- Shetland gooseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Shy AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Siberian CraneDeep Cut85points
- Silver Appleyard duckDeep Cut85points
- Silvery-cheeked HornbillDeep Cut85points
- Sira curassowDeep Cut85points
- Slate turkeyDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed VultureDeep Cut85points
- Snares PenguinDeep Cut85points
- SnowcockDeep Cut85points
- Socotra CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Solitary EagleDeep Cut85points
- Somali OstrichDeep Cut85points
- Sooty AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- South Georgia ShagDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bald IbisDeep Cut85points
- Southern Brown KiwiDeep Cut85points
- Southern Crowned PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Southern Giant-petrelDeep Cut85points
- Southern Ground-hornbillDeep Cut85points
- Southern Rockhopper PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Southern Royal AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Southern ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Spanish Imperial EagleDeep Cut85points
- Spot-billed PelicanDeep Cut85points
- Spur-winged GooseDeep Cut85points
- Standard Bronze turkeyDeep Cut85points
- Steamer duckDeep Cut85points
- Steppe EagleDeep Cut85points
- Storm's StorkDeep Cut85points
- Swan GooseDeep Cut85points
- Swedish duckDeep Cut85points
- Taiga bean gooseDeep Cut85points
- TakaheDeep Cut85points
- Tawny EagleDeep Cut85points
- Tawny Fish-owlDeep Cut85points
- Tibetan Eared-pheasantDeep Cut85points
- Toulouse gooseDeep Cut85points
- Tristan AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Tundra bean gooseDeep Cut85points
- Tundra SwanDeep Cut85points
- Upland GooseDeep Cut85points
- Verreaux's EagleDeep Cut85points
- Verreaux's eagle-owlDeep Cut85points
- Victoria Crowned-pigeonDeep Cut85points
- Wattled CraneDeep 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.