One clip names both of them

13 views between them.

Carrion Crow outweighs Common Starling 7.4× — 0.6 kg against 0.1 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.08 kg

🐦 Common Starling · AVONET

0.57 kg

🐦‍⬛ Carrion Crow · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

23 yr

🐦 Common Starling · AnAge

19 yr

🐦‍⬛ Carrion Crow · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Les animaux pris sur le vif

De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Passeriformes (order), home to 11,215 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 53 million years ago.

Estimates range from 47 to 63 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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