🐦⬛
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Common Grackle
Quiscalus quiscula
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
1,752 views between them.
Common Grackle outweighs Blue Jay 1.2× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.09 kg
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AVONET
0.11 kg
🐦 Common Grackle · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AnAge
23 yr
🐦 Common Grackle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Passeriformes (order), home to 11,215 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.