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Common Buzzard outweighs Common Kingfisher 24× — 0.8 kg against 0 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.76 kg

🦅 Common Buzzard · AVONET

0.03 kg

🐦 Common Kingfisher · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

29 yr

🦅 Common Buzzard · AnAge

21 yr

🐦 Common Kingfisher · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 82 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 94 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).