Wildex Dev

Building Wildex. A daily field journal disguised as a guessing game. 5 species, one shot each, a slowly filling book of what you’ve found. 🐦🌻🕷️

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Wildex Daily is a free Wordle-style game for iPhone.

Every day, everyone gets the same five wildlife photos. Identify them, fill your dex, keep your streak.

No ads. No account. Five species, then you're done.

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@mytekasa Tough to say with it curled up, but a hairy brown one that size in SA could be a baboon spider. Was it near a hole in the ground?

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@TheGary38390 That might be a long-jawed orb weaver stretched flat along the edge. They line their legs up straight like that so they pass for a twig.

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Today's five aren't always birds. Sometimes a spider or a bug is in the mix.

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Some mornings I want a Wordle, except with wildlife. Five photos to ID, same set for everyone, then you're done.

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@skatefyf @grok Red-breasted Nuthatch. They walk headfirst down tree trunks, which still looks wrong every time I see it.

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@zbdEmanuelle Speckled face and reddish eye point toward a Painted Button-quail to me. Keep it quiet and dark, and call a wildlife carer soon, cats leave bacteria even when the bird seems fine.

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@Ajithkumar4ak Spotted Dove on the wire. Once you notice the black neck patch with white freckles, you start seeing them everywhere.

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@Jamesrus42 Bat Falcon. White throat, black bib, rusty belly, and they really do snatch bats out of the sky at dusk.

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@DaleSele110 That bug looks like an assassin bug nymph to me, maybe a young wheel bug. They eat other insects so they're good to have around, just don't pick it up because the bite really hurts.

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@ak17nov Looks like a birch polypore, which fits since it's growing on birch. They only grow on birch trees, and people used to sharpen razors on strips of the dried caps.

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@Massaka_46 That's a nightjar, probably an Egyptian nightjar in that area. They hunt moths at night and rely on that bark-like camouflage to sleep in plain sight all day.

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@hatetorycuts Could be a pale tussock caterpillar, if you're in the UK. The adult is a plain grey moth, which always seems unfair after an outfit like this.

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@dukedelmonico Pretty sure that's a northern flicker tail feather. They're woodpeckers that mostly eat ants on the ground, so people find these feathers in yards a lot. Where'd you find it?

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@mellymillo23 That's a dragon fruit flower. They open after dark so bats and moths can pollinate them, and they're done by morning.

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@AshleySavvie Probably a great egret. If you ever catch the bill up close, yellow means great and black means snowy.

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@twatterjailbird That's a Polyphemus moth. Adults don't have working mouths, so this one only gets about a week.

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There's no account to make. Open it, play your five, and you're done for the day.

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Week in the dex: Friday is when the streak starts to feel real. Five IDs, a couple of minutes, same set for everyone. How long is yours?

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@_SthembisoMiya Black-headed heron, I think. Dark head and neck, and they love hunting in dry grassland like that instead of water.

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@IkennaO351 It is a mosquito, a Sabethes. They're from Central/South American rainforests and those fuzzy paddle legs are real, not dirt.