Animals With Color in their Names

Based on a picture, can you identify these animals whose name includes a color such as red, black, or gold?

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49 Comments

Level 70

Jan 5, 2023

Grey Heron should be accepted.

Level 81

Jan 5, 2023

Seconded... I was baffled that it didn't accept it....

Level ∞

Jan 5, 2023

That will work now

+11

Level 93

Jan 5, 2023

Consider accepting African Grey as a typein -- I think it's the full name, or at least a widely used alternative. I tried it 3-4 times before giving up.

Level 79

Jan 5, 2023

Yeah, I missed it because of that. African grey is apparently just another name for it though rather than the official name.

"The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot or African grey parrot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot

Level ∞

Jan 5, 2023

That will now be accepted

Level 96

Jan 5, 2023

Never heard of a gray parrot. Kept trying variations of "red-tailed".

Level ∞

Jan 5, 2023

Grey parrots are a very interesting animal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot#Intelligence_and_cognition

Level 77

Jan 5, 2023

Feel so dumb. I missed the eagle question and I live on a street called "Golden Eagle Landing".

Level 89

Jan 5, 2023

I’m a huge fan of the animal quizzes. Keep it up!

+23

Level 63

Jan 5, 2023

Goldfinches look nothing like that in the UK! And the deer looks like an identical twin of a red deer...

Level 74

Jan 5, 2023

Yeah, British/European Goldfinches do look pretty different. That one got me.

Level 80

Jan 9, 2023

I had to look that one up. Turns out the American goldfinch and the European goldfinch are from the same subfamily, but different genera.

Level 60

Jan 9, 2023

I only got those because I am interested in nature and I often see American wildlife on my internet travels. Otherwise those would have stumped me as those aren't as well known outside of America. I first tried Golden Oriole, then Baltimore Golden Oriole for the Finch but when that failed I remembered the right answer. I'm just glad they accepted Grey Heron given the two species are practically identical.

Level 68

Jun 10, 2025

I lot of New World birds are quite different to their Old World namesakes. European settlers named a number of birds after ones they reminded them of back home without them necessarily being related or in some case even looking particularly similar.

+13

Level 43

Jan 5, 2023

my dumbass wrote "Yellow Fish"

Level 73

Jan 13, 2023

Well to be fair that was the same logic I used to get to "green iguana" and that worked.

Level 72

Jan 5, 2023

Thank you Endless Ocean for yellow tang.

Level 66

Jan 5, 2023

I take pride in getting Yellow Tang, only missed the Parrot, Heron, Deer, and Finch.

Level 70

Jan 10, 2023

So you "only" missed 25% of the answers?

Level 78

Jan 6, 2023

Red deer seems to be more appropriate than white-tailed deer, but that's just a preference.

Level 81

Jan 8, 2023

If the red deer was only native to North America, it probably would have gotten a spot on the quiz.

Level 82

Jan 6, 2023

I've never seen an animal as funny as the Blue Footed Booby. Well named for sure. I couldn't answer the rest for laughing

Level 67

Jan 11, 2023

I couldn't remember its name and tried Blue Finned Booby. At least this gave me the tuna answer!

Level 76

Jan 9, 2023

I agree with previous comment about the goldfinch-a UK goldfinch looks nothing like that...and I kept typing in red deer.

Level 60

Jan 9, 2023

Not just UK but all across Europe and into Asia.

Level 40

Jan 9, 2023

Omg it's the jetpunk fish

Level 54

Jan 9, 2023

question, why does gray heron work for great blue heron?

Level 80

Jan 9, 2023

Because they're closely-related species that look very similar, especially in this picture.

Level 32

Jan 9, 2023

Was hoping for a yellow breasted warbler...

Level 37

Jan 9, 2023

I thought the panda was a fox.

Level 56

Jan 9, 2023

blue footed boo--

* FBI intensifies *

Level 83

Jan 9, 2023

I don't know if I agree with that first animal's political views.

Level 68

Jan 10, 2023

The North Island Brown Kiwi.

Level 81

Jan 12, 2023

Red kangaroo

Level 65

Jan 18, 2023

Why don't yall make your own version of this quiz? 😃

Level 63

Jan 16, 2023

Thank you for including gold in the instructions. ;)

Level 87

May 8, 2023

Goldfinch, state bird of NJ. (contrary to popular perception, not the middle finger) In 50+ years in NJ, I've see as many pterodactyls as goldfinches.

Level 67

Aug 23, 2023

Maybe you should entitle it 'American Goldfinch' as it looks nothing like what we in Europe call a Goldfinch.

Level 76

Mar 27, 2024

To make it more confusing the Dutch word/version (the literal translation goudvink) apparently is yet ánother bird, the eurasian bullfinch in English.

So we have putter, goudsijs, and goudvink. Which are respectively European goldfinch, American goldfinch and bullfinch.

I did not know any of this before hand (I had heard of all the names though, but was not aware of a difference between european and american, I had just heard plain goldfinch before (or remembered))

I atleast did recognize it as a finch, I tried yellow finch.

Funny thing is I do know that birds can look radically different between the old and new world and still bare the same name, I have encountered this with blackbird, and robin. Wildly different looking if I rememeber. So as a random guess I tried blackbird (when yellow finch did nothing)haha

Level 44

Sep 17, 2023

That is not a gold finch

Level 74

Mar 1, 2025

Looks just like the males that come to my bird feeder in MO when they get their summer plumage. They look like the females in winter, wearing olive drab.

Level 68

Oct 27, 2025

It is! Though an American goldfinch, not a European goldfinch. They were thought to be closely related, but around the year 2010 scientists determined that the American goldfinch is actually a kind of siskin, moving it from the genus Carduelis to back Spinus (where it originally was before 1976.)

Level 31

Jan 8, 2025

No Brown bear, Red-tailed hawk, White rhinoceros, or Yellow-belly sea snake,

Level 85

Mar 30, 2025

should accept the American Goldfinch, as that is the species shown

Level 64

May 17, 2025

I thought Tang was orange

Level 68

Oct 27, 2025

Small nitpick but could you write it as "Blue Jay" instead of "Bluejay"?

Level 19

Dec 23, 2025

tried blue tuna, was close haha

Level 40

Jan 26, 2026

12, but i'm surprised with how many people missed the white tailed deer

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