One clip names both of them

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Great Cormorant outweighs Eurasian Magpie 12× — 2.5 kg against 0.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

2.53 kg

🐦 Great Cormorant · AVONET

0.22 kg

🐦 Eurasian Magpie · AVONET

Body length

1.01 m

🐦 Great Cormorant · SeaLifeBase

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🐦 Eurasian Magpie

Maximum lifespan

32 yr

🐦 Great Cormorant · AnAge

22 yr

🐦 Eurasian Magpie · 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 86 million years ago.

Estimates range from 77 to 97 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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