🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦩
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,098 views between them.
Golden eagle outweighs Great Blue Heron 1.7× — 4.2 kg against 2.5 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Andy Wilson (CC BY); others CC0.
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Great Blue Heron
1.22 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
2.52 kg
🦩 Great Blue Heron · AVONET
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.3 m
🦩 Great Blue Heron · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
25 yr
🦩 Great Blue Heron · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.