Krillion prompt · November 8, 2026
Name a living bird bigger than a chicken
Krillion accepted 813 answers for this prompt in Dive #116. 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 813 accepted answers, this prompt is close to a typical Krillion prompt (about 710).
- 646 answers (79%) are Deep Cuts and 138 are Rare, while 6 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Kea +60 Kite +60 Kiwi +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.
- Rüppell's vulture
Its 37,000-foot jet strike over Ivory Coast remains the bird altitude record.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Abbott's Booby
- Abdim's Stork
- Abyssinian Ground-hornbill
- Adjutant
- African Cuckoo-Hawk
- African Darter
- African Grass Owl
- African Hawk-Eagle
- African Houbara
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Openbill
- African Sacred Ibis
- African Skimmer
- African Spoonbill
- African Woolly-necked Stork
- Agami Heron
- Alagoas Curassow
- Altai Snowcock
- American Bittern
- American Buff goose
- Amsterdam Albatross
- Andaman Serpent Eagle
- Andean Flamingo
- Andean Goose
- Andean Gull
- Antarctic Petrel
- Antarctic Shag
- Antipodean Albatross
- Arabian Bustard
- Arctic Loon
- Armenian Gull
- Ascension Frigatebird
- Ashy-headed Goose
- Asian Houbara
- Asian Openbill
- Atlantic Petrel
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Auckland Shag
- Audouin's Gull
- Augur Buzzard
- Australasian Bittern
- Australasian Gannet
- Australasian Masked Owl
- Australian Bustard
- Australian Darter
- Australian Pied Cormorant
- Australian Shelduck
- Australian Tern
- Aylesbury duck
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
- Banded Penguin
- Bank Cormorant
- Bar-headed Goose
- Barau's Petrel
- Bare-faced Curassow
- Bare-throated Tiger-heron
- Barking Owl
- Barred Hawk
- Barred Honey Buzzard
- Barred Owl
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Baudin's Black Cockatoo
- Beach Stone-curlew
- Bean Goose
- Bearded vulture
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle
- Belcher's Gull
- Belem curassow
- Beltsville Small White turkey
- Bengal Florican
- Bewick's swan
- Bilgoraj goose
- Black Caracara
- Black Crowned-crane
- Black Curassow
- Black Harrier
- Black Hawk-Eagle
- Black Honey Buzzard
- Black Petrel
- Black Sparrowhawk
- Black-and-chestnut Eagle
- Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
- Black-billed Capercaillie
- Black-breasted Buzzard
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-capped Petrel
- Black-chested Buzzard-eagle
- Black-chested Snake Eagle
- Black-collared Hawk
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-faced Cormorant
- Black-footed Albatross
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Ibis
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-legged Seriema
- Black-necked Crane
- Black-necked Stork
- Black-necked Swan
- Black-tailed Gull
- Blakiston's Fish-owl
- Blue Crane
- Blue Eared-pheasant
- Blue-billed Curassow
- Blue-throated Macaw
- Blyth's Hawk-Eagle
- Bonelli's Eagle
- Booted Eagle
- Bounty Islands Shag
- Bourbon Red turkey
- Bourbonnais goose
- Brandt's Cormorant
- Brecon Buff goose
- Broad Breasted Bronze turkey
- Broad Breasted White turkey
- Brown Eared-pheasant
- Brown Fish Owl
- Brown Skua
- Brown Snake-eagle
- Brown Wood Owl
- Brown-headed Gull
- Brown-hooded Gull
- Brown-necked Raven
- Brush-tailed Penguin
- Buff-necked Ibis
- Buller's Albatross
- Buller's Shearwater
- Bush Stone-curlew
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Campbell Albatross
- Campbell Shag
- Cape Barren Goose
- Cape Cormorant
- Cape Eagle-Owl
- Cape Gannet
- Cape Verde Petrel
- Cape Verde Shearwater
- Cape Vulture
- Carnaby's Black Cockatoo
- Carrion Crow
- Carunculated Caracara
- Caspian Gull
- Caspian Snowcock
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle
- Catalina Macaw
- Cayuga duck
- Chaco eagle
- Changeable Hawk-Eagle
- Channel-billed Cuckoo
- Chatham Albatross
- Chatham Islands Shag
- Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chilean Skua
- Chinese Crested Tern
- Chinese Egret
- Chinese Monal
- Christmas Island Frigatebird
- Cinereous Harrier
- Cinereous Vulture
- Cocoi Heron
- Common Crane
- Common Eider
- Common Gull
- Common Shelduck
- Cory's Shearwater
- Coscoroba Swan
- Crane Hawk
- Crested Eagle
- Crested Guan
- Crested Honey Buzzard
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Crestless Curassow
- Crowned Hawk-eagle
- Crozet Shag
- Curassow
- Dalmatian Pelican
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Darter
- Demoiselle Crane
- Denham's Bustard
- Dolphin Gull
- Doria's Hawk
- Dwarf Cassowary
- Eared pheasant
- Eastern Buzzard
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk
- Eastern Grass Owl
- Eastern Great Egret
- Eastern Imperial Eagle
- Eastern Marsh Harrier
- Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eleonora's Falcon
- Embden goose
- Emperor Goose
- Erect-crested Penguin
- Eurasian Eagle-owl
- Eurasian Goshawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- European Honey Buzzard
- European Shag
- Falkland steamer duck
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Fiordland Penguin
- Fish eagle
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Flightless Cormorant
- Flightless steamer duck
- Flores Hawk-eagle
- Flying steamer duck
- Forest Buzzard
- Forest Raven
- Franklin's Gull
- Galapagos Hawk
- Galapagos Petrel
- Giant Coot
- Giant Ibis
- Giant Petrel
- Gibson's Albatross
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Goliath Heron
- Gould's wild turkey
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Great Albatross
- Great Black Hawk
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Cormorant
- Great Curassow
- Great Gray Owl
- Great Green Macaw
- Great Indian Bustard
- Great Penguin
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Great Spotted Kiwi
- Great Stone-curlew
- Great white heron
- Great White Pelican
- Great-billed Heron
- Great-winged Petrel
- Greater Adjutant
- Greater Crested Tern
- Greater Frigatebird
- Greater Sandhill Crane
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
- Green Peafowl
- Grey Crowned-crane
- Grey Petrel
- Grey-backed Hawk
- Grey-faced Petrel
- Grey-headed Albatross
- Grey-headed Fish Eagle
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Kite
- Greylag Goose
- Guanay Cormorant
- Gurney's Eagle
- Gyrfalcon
- Hadada Ibis
- Harlequin Macaw
- Hartlaub's Gull
- Hawaiian Petrel
- Heard Island Shag
- Heermann's Gull
- Helmeted Curassow
- Helmeted Hornbill
- Henderson Petrel
- Henst's Goshawk
- Herald Petrel
- Herring Gull
- Heuglin's Bustard
- Himalayan Monal
- Himalayan Snowcock
- Himalayan Vulture
- Hooded Crane
- Hooded Vulture
- Horned Coot
- Horned Curassow
- Horned Guan
- Horned Screamer
- Humblot's Heron
- Humboldt Penguin
- Iceland Gull
- Imperial Shag
- Indian Eagle-Owl
- Indian Skimmer
- Indian Spotted Eagle
- Indian Vulture
- Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Ivory Gull
- Jabiru
- Jackal Buzzard
- Japanese Cormorant
- Javan Hawk-Eagle
- Jerdon's Baza
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Kartuzy goose
- Kelp Goose
- Kelp Gull
- Kermadec Petrel
- King Eider
- Knob-billed duck
- Knobbed Hornbill
- Laggar Falcon
- Lanner Falcon
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Large-billed Crow
- Laughing Gull
- Lava Gull
- Laysan Albatross
- Lear's Macaw
- Legge's hawk-eagle
- Lesser Adjutant
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Fish Eagle
- Lesser Frigatebird
- Lesser Rhea
- Lesser Sandhill Crane
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Lesser White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
- Letter-winged Kite
- Light-mantled Albatross
- Lingxian goose
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Bustard
- Little Crow
- Little Eagle
- Little Raven
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-legged Buzzard
- Long-tailed Honey Buzzard
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-winged Harrier
- Ludwig's Bustard
- Macquarie Shag
- Madagascar Buzzard
- Madagascar Cuckoo-Hawk
- Madagascar Fish-eagle
- Madagascar Harrier-Hawk
- Madagascar Serpent Eagle
- Magellanic Penguin
- Magenta Petrel
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magpie Goose
- Maguari Stork
- Malagasy Harrier
- Malagasy Sacred Ibis
- Mantled Hawk
- Marsh Owl
- Martial Eagle
- Masked Booby
- Mediterranean Gull
- Medium Egret
- Merriam's wild turkey
- Meyer's Goshawk
- Midget White turkey
- Military Macaw
- Milky Stork
- Mississippi Kite
- Mollymawk
- Moluccan Cockatoo
- Monal
- Montagu's Harrier
- Mountain Buzzard
- Mountain Caracara
- Mountain Hawk-eagle
- Mountain Serpent Eagle
- Murphy's Petrel
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Narragansett turkey
- Nazca Booby
- Nene
- Neotropic Cormorant
- New Guinea Eagle
- New Zealand King Shag
- Norfolk Black turkey
- Northern Bald Ibis
- Northern Brown Kiwi
- Northern Cassowary
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Giant-petrel
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Rockhopper Penguin
- Northern Royal Albatross
- Northern Screamer
- Nubian Bustard
- Ocellated Turkey
- Okarito Kiwi
- Olrog's Gull
- Openbill
- Oriental Darter
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Oriental Stork
- Orinoco Goose
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle
- Osceola wild turkey
- Otago Shag
- Pacific Baza
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Padovana goose
- Painted Stork
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pallas's Fish-eagle
- Pallas's Gull
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Cockatoo
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Papuan Frogmouth
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pel's Fishing Owl
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Peruvian Booby
- Peruvian Pelican
- Pharaoh Eagle-owl
- Philippine Honey Buzzard
- Philippine Serpent Eagle
- Phoenix Petrel
- Pied Harrier
- Pilgrim goose
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Pinnated Bittern
- Plain-pouched Hornbill
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Pomeranian goose
- Powerful Owl
- Prairie Falcon
- Providence Petrel
- Puna Flamingo
- Puna Rhea
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Eagle
- Radjah Shelduck
- Ratite
- Razor-billed Curassow
- Red Goshawk
- Red-and-green Macaw
- Red-billed Curassow
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-faced Cormorant
- Red-headed Vulture
- Red-legged Kittiwake
- Red-legged Seriema
- Red-tailed Tropicbird
- Red-throated Loon
- Reddish Egret
- Reunion Harrier
- Rhinoceros Hornbill
- Ring-billed Gull
- Rio Grande wild turkey
- Rock Shag
- Romagnola goose
- Roman goose
- Ross's Goose
- Rouen duck
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Royal Albatross
- Royal Palm turkey
- Royal Spoonbill
- Royal Tern
- Ruby Macaw
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Rufous Crab Hawk
- Rufous Hornbill
- Rufous Owl
- Rufous-bellied Eagle
- Rufous-necked Hornbill
- Rufous-tailed Hawk
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Saker Falcon
- Salvin's Albatross
- Salvin's Curassow
- Sandwich Tern
- Sanford's Sea Eagle
- Sarus Crane
- Savanna Hawk
- Saxony duck
- Sclater's crowned pigeon
- Sclater's Monal
- Scopoli's Shearwater
- Screamer
- Sebastopol goose
- Seriema
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Adelie Penguin
- African Fish-eagle
- African goose
- African Harrier-Hawk
- African Penguin
- American Flamingo
- American Goshawk
- American White Pelican
- Andean Condor
- Anhinga
- Australian Brush-turkey
- Australian Pelican
- Australian Raven
- Australian White Ibis
- Barn Owl
- Barnacle Goose
- Black Eagle
- Black Falcon
- Black Kite
- Black Skimmer
- Black Stork
- Black Swan
- Black Vulture
- Black-faced Spoonbill
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw
- Blue-footed Booby
- Booby
- Brahminy Kite
- Brant Goose
- Brolga
- Brown Booby
- Brown Falcon
- Brown Pelican
- Bustard
- Buzzard
- California Condor
- Caspian Tern
- Chinese goose
- Chinstrap Penguin
- Cockatoo
- Common Black Hawk
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Cormorant
- Crested Caracara
- Crested Ibis
- Crested Penguin
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned pigeon
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Egret
- Egyptian Goose
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Curlew
- Frigatebird
- Galapagos Penguin
- Gannet
- Gentoo Penguin
- Golden Eagle
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Bustard
- Great Egret
- Great Hornbill
- Great Horned Owl
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Rhea
- Greater Sage-Grouse
- Grey Falcon
- Grey Heron
- Griffon Vulture
- Ground hornbill
- Hamerkop
- Harpy Eagle
- Harris's Hawk
- Hen Harrier
- Hornbill
- Hyacinth Macaw
- Indian Peafowl
- Kea
- King Penguin
- King Vulture
- Kite
- Kiwi
- Kori Bustard
- Lesser Flamingo
- Limpkin
- Little Egret
- Loon
- Macaroni Penguin
- Macaw
- Marabou Stork
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Harrier
- Oilbird
- Pacific Gull
- Pekin duck
- Philippine Eagle
- Pied Crow
- Raven
- Red-crowned Crane
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rhea
- Rockhopper Penguin
- Rook
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Royal Penguin
- Sandhill Crane
- Scarlet Macaw
- Sea eagle
- Secretarybird
- Shoebill
- Skua
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Southern Cassowary
- Spoonbill
- Steller's Sea-eagle
- Swainson's Hawk
- Tawny Owl
- Trumpeter Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Wandering Albatross
- Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Western Capercaillie
- White Hawk
- White Ibis
- White Stork
- White-faced Heron
- White-tailed Hawk
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Yellow-legged Gull
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Albatross
- American Crow
- Bald Eagle
- Canada Goose
- Cassowary
- Condor
- Crane
- Emperor Penguin
- Falcon
- Flamingo
- Goose
- Hawk
- Heron
- Ibis
- Osprey
- Owl
- Pelican
- Penguin
- Peregrine Falcon
- Seagull
- Stork
- Vulture
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Eagle
- Emu
- Ostrich
- Peacock
- Swan
- Turkey