Krillion prompt · October 27, 2026
Name a bird that lives in or by water
Krillion accepted 1,467 answers for this prompt in Dive #104. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 1,467 accepted answers, this prompt is about 2.5 times wider than a typical Krillion prompt (about 598).
- 1,387 answers (95%) are Deep Cuts and 64 are Rare, while 6 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Auk +60 Coot +60 Ibis +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Sungrebe
Males carry chicks in skin pockets under their wings, even while flying.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Abbott's Booby
- Abdim's stork
- African black duck
- African crake
- African darter
- African finfoot
- African fish eagle
- African goose
- African Grass Owl
- African jacana
- African marsh harrier
- African openbill
- African oystercatcher
- African penguin
- African pied wagtail
- African pygmy goose
- African rail
- African River Martin
- African skimmer
- African Snipe
- African spoonbill
- African swamphen
- African wattled lapwing
- African Yellow Warbler
- Agami heron
- Ainley's Storm Petrel
- Alder flycatcher
- Aleutian tern
- Allen's gallinule
- Altamira Yellowthroat
- Amazon kingfisher
- American avocet
- American bittern
- American dipper
- American golden plover
- American herring gull
- American oystercatcher
- American pygmy kingfisher
- American white pelican
- American wigeon
- American woodcock
- Amsterdam Albatross
- Ancient murrelet
- Andaman Crake
- Andaman Teal
- Andean Avocet
- Andean coot
- Andean duck
- Andean flamingo
- Andean goose
- Andean gull
- Andean Ibis
- Andean Lapwing
- Andean storm petrel
- Andean Teal
- Anhinga
- Antarctic Petrel
- Antarctic Prion
- Antarctic Shag
- Antarctic Tern
- Antipodean Albatross
- Apolinar's Wren
- Aquatic warbler
- Armenian gull
- Ascension frigatebird
- Ash-throated Crake
- Ashy Storm Petrel
- Ashy-headed goose
- Asian dowitcher
- Asian openbill
- Atlantic Petrel
- Atlantic puffin
- Atlantic White Tern
- Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
- Auckland shag
- Auckland Teal
- Audouin's gull
- Audubon's shearwater
- Auklet
- Austral Rail
- Australasian bittern
- Australasian darter
- Australasian gannet
- Australasian grebe
- Australasian Shoveler
- Australian crake
- Australian little bittern
- Australian Painted-snipe
- Australian pelican
- Australian pied cormorant
- Australian Pratincole
- Australian reed warbler
- Australian shelduck
- Australian Tern
- Australian wood duck
- Avocet
- Aylesbury duck
- Aztec Rail
- Azure Gallinule
- Azure kingfisher
- Baer's pochard
- Baikal teal
- Baillon's crake
- Baird's sandpiper
- Balearic shearwater
- Band-bellied Crake
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Banded stilt
- Bank cormorant
- Bannerman's Shearwater
- Bar-headed goose
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Barau's Petrel
- Bare-faced ibis
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron
- Barnacle goose
- Barolo shearwater
- Barred Rail
- Barrow's goldeneye
- Basra Reed Warbler
- Beach Kingfisher
- Beach stone-curlew
- Bean goose
- Bearded reedling
- Beck's Petrel
- Belcher's gull
- Belding's Yellowthroat
- Bermuda Petrel
- Bernier's Teal
- Bewick's swan
- Bilgoraj goose
- Bismarck Kingfisher
- Bittern
- Black bittern
- Black crake
- Black crowned crane
- Black guillemot
- Black heron
- Black Noddy
- Black oystercatcher
- Black petrel
- Black phoebe
- Black Rail
- Black scoter
- Black skimmer
- Black stilt
- Black stork
- Black Storm Petrel
- Black tern
- Black Turnstone
- Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher
- Black-backed forktail
- Black-backed Swamphen
- Black-backed Water Tyrant
- Black-banded Crake
- Black-bellied Storm Petrel
- Black-bellied tern
- Black-bellied whistling duck
- Black-billed gull
- Black-browed albatross
- Black-browed Reed Warbler
- Black-capped donacobius
- Black-capped kingfisher
- Black-capped petrel
- Black-collared hawk
- Black-collared Swallow
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-faced Cormorant
- Black-faced ibis
- Black-faced Sheathbill
- Black-faced spoonbill
- Black-footed albatross
- Black-fronted dotterel
- Black-fronted tern
- Black-headed Duck
- Black-headed gull
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed ibis
- Black-legged kittiwake
- Black-naped Tern
- Black-necked crane
- Black-necked grebe
- Black-necked stilt
- Black-necked stork
- Black-necked swan
- Black-polled Yellowthroat
- Black-tailed Crake
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-tailed gull
- Black-tailed nativehen
- Black-throated loon
- Black-vented Shearwater
- Black-whiskered vireo
- Black-winged Petrel
- Black-winged pratincole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blackish cinclodes
- Blackish oystercatcher
- Blackish Rail
- Blacksmith lapwing
- Blakiston's fish owl
- Blue crane
- Blue duck
- Blue Noddy
- Blue Petrel
- Blue whistling thrush
- Blue-billed duck
- Blue-billed Teal
- Blue-billed white tern
- Blue-black Kingfisher
- Blue-eared kingfisher
- Blue-winged Goose
- Blue-winged teal
- Bluethroat
- Blunt-winged Warbler
- Blyth's Kingfisher
- Boat-billed heron
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bogota Rail
- Bonaparte's gull
- Bonin Petrel
- Bornean Forktail
- Bounty shag
- Bourbonnais goose
- Boyd's Shearwater
- Brahminy kite
- Brandt's Cormorant
- Brant
- Brazilian merganser
- Brazilian teal
- Brazza's Martin
- Brecon Buff goose
- Bridled tern
- Bristle-thighed curlew
- Bristled grassbird
- Broad-billed Prion
- Broad-billed sandpiper
- Brolga
- Bronze-winged Duck
- Bronze-winged jacana
- Brown booby
- Brown Crake
- Brown dipper
- Brown fish owl
- Brown noddy
- Brown pelican
- Brown Skua
- Brown teal
- Brown Wood Rail
- Brown-and-yellow Marshbird
- Brown-cheeked Rail
- Brown-chested Martin
- Brown-headed gull
- Brown-hooded gull
- Brown-throated martin
- Brown-winged Kingfisher
- Bryan's Shearwater
- Buff Orpington duck
- Buff-banded rail
- Buff-bellied pipit
- Buff-necked Ibis
- Buff-winged Cinclodes
- Bufflehead
- Buffy fish owl
- Buller's Albatross
- Buller's Shearwater
- Bulwer's petrel
- Cabot's tern
- Cackling goose
- California gull
- Call duck
- Campbell Albatross
- Campbell shag
- Campbell teal
- Canvasback
- Cape Barren goose
- Cape cormorant
- Cape gannet
- Cape Shoveler
- Cape teal
- Cape Verde shearwater
- Cape Verde Storm Petrel
- Cape Verde Warbler
- Cape wagtail
- Capped heron
- Carruthers's Cisticola
- Caspian gull
- Caspian tern
- Cassin's Auklet
- Cattle egret
- Cayuga duck
- Cerulean Kingfisher
- Cetti's warbler
- Chatham Albatross
- Chatham Island oystercatcher
- Chatham petrel
- Chatham shag
- Chestnut Rail
- Chestnut teal
- Chestnut-banded Plover
- Chestnut-capped Blackbird
- Chestnut-headed Flufftail
- Chestnut-naped Forktail
- Chestnut-winged Cinclodes
- Chilean flamingo
- Chilean Seaside Cinclodes
- Chilean skua
- Chiloe wigeon
- Chinese crested tern
- Chinese egret
- Chinese goose
- Chinese pond heron
- Chinstrap penguin
- Chirping Cisticola
- Christmas Frigatebird
- Christmas Shearwater
- Chubut Steamer Duck
- Cinclodes
- Cinnamon bittern
- Cinnamon teal
- Citrine wagtail
- Clamorous reed warbler
- Clapper rail
- Clark's grebe
- Cocoi heron
- Cocos Booby
- Collared kingfisher
- Collared Petrel
- Collared plover
- Collared pratincole
- Colombian Crake
- Comb duck
- Comb-crested jacana
- Common black hawk
- Common crane
- Common diving petrel
- Common eider
- Common gallinule
- Common goldeneye
- Common gull
- Common merganser
- Common moorhen
- Common Murre
- Common pochard
- Common sandpiper
- Common scoter
- Common Shelduck
- Common snipe
- Common tern
- Common yellowthroat
- Congo Martin
- Cook Reed Warbler
- Cook's petrel
- Cory's shearwater
- Coscoroba swan
- Cotton pygmy goose
- Crab-plover
- Crake
- Crane hawk
- Craveri's Murrelet
- Cream-winged Cinclodes
- Crested Auklet
- Crested duck
- Crested ibis
- Crested kingfisher
- Crested Penguin
- Crested Shelduck
- Crowned cormorant
- Crowned crane
- Crozet Shag
- Cuban Black Hawk
- Curlew
- Curlew sandpiper
- Curve-billed Reedhaunter
- Dalmatian pelican
- Damara tern
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes
- Demoiselle crane
- Dendermonde duck
- Desertas petrel
- Deshi duck
- Diademed sandpiper-plover
- Dimorphic Egret
- Dipper
- Diving petrel
- Dja River Scrub Warbler
- Dolphin gull
- Dot-winged Crake
- Dotterel
- Double-banded plover
- Double-crested cormorant
- Dowitcher
- Drab Water Tyrant
- Dunlin
- Dusky moorhen
- Dwarf bittern
- Eastern curlew
- Eastern Marsh Harrier
- Eastern reef egret
- Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
- Eastern spot-billed duck
- Eaton's Pintail
- Ecuadorian Rail
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian plover
- Elegant tern
- Eleonora's falcon
- Elliot's Storm Petrel
- Embden goose
- Emperor goose
- Erect-crested penguin
- Eskimo Curlew
- Ethiopian Cisticola
- Eurasian bittern
- Eurasian coot
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian wigeon
- European golden plover
- European shag
- European storm petrel
- Fairy martin
- Fairy prion
- Fairy tern
- Falcated duck
- Falkland steamer duck
- Fan-tailed Widowbird
- Fasciated tiger heron
- Fea's petrel
- Fernbird
- Ferruginous duck
- Fiji Petrel
- Finfoot
- Fiordland penguin
- Fish crow
- Fish eagle
- Fish owl
- Flesh-footed shearwater
- Flightless cormorant
- Flightless steamer duck
- Fluttering shearwater
- Fly River Grassbird
- Flying steamer duck
- Forbes's Blackbird
- Forbes's Plover
- Forest Bittern
- Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
- Forster's tern
- Franklin's gull
- Freckled duck
- Fuegian Snipe
- Fulmar
- Fulmar Prion
- Fulvous whistling duck
- Gadwall
- Galapagos Petrel
- Galapagos Shearwater
- Gallinule
- Garganey
- Giant coot
- Giant Ibis
- Giant kingfisher
- Giant petrel
- Giant Snipe
- Giant wood rail
- Glaucous gull
- Glaucous-winged gull
- Glossy ibis
- Godwit
- Golden plover
- Goldeneye
- Goliath heron
- Gough Moorhen
- Gould's Petrel
- Grauer's Swamp Warbler
- Great Black Hawk
- Great black-backed gull
- Great cormorant
- Great crested grebe
- Great frigatebird
- Great grebe
- Great knot
- Great reed warbler
- Great shearwater
- Great skua
- Great snipe
- Great Stone-curlew
- Great white pelican
- Great-billed Heron
- Great-billed Kingfisher
- Great-winged Petrel
- Greater adjutant
- Greater crested tern
- Greater flamingo
- Greater Painted-snipe
- Greater sand plover
- Greater scaup
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Adélie penguin
- American black duck
- American coot
- American flamingo
- American white ibis
- Arctic tern
- Auk
- Australasian Swamphen
- Australian white ibis
- Bald eagle
- Belted kingfisher
- Black swan
- Blue-footed booby
- Booby
- Cape petrel
- Common kingfisher
- Common loon
- Coot
- Cormorant
- Egret
- Eider
- Emperor penguin
- Frigatebird
- Galapagos penguin
- Gannet
- Gentoo penguin
- Great blue heron
- Great egret
- Grebe
- Green heron
- Grey heron
- Guillemot
- Ibis
- Killdeer
- King penguin
- Kingfisher
- Macaroni penguin
- Mandarin duck
- Marabou stork
- Merganser
- Moorhen
- Osprey
- Plover
- Rail
- Razorbill
- Red-crowned crane
- Red-winged blackbird
- Roseate spoonbill
- Sandhill crane
- Sandpiper
- Scarlet ibis
- Shag
- Shearwater
- Shoebill
- Skua
- Snow goose
- Spoonbill
- Teal
- Tern
- Wandering albatross
- White stork
- Whooping crane
- Wigeon
- Wood duck
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Albatross
- Canada goose
- Crane
- Flamingo
- Heron
- Loon
- Mallard
- Puffin
- Stork
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Duck
- Goose
- Pelican
- Penguin
- Seagull
- Swan
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