🐦
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
10 views between them.
Great Cormorant outweighs Grey Heron 1.8× — 2.5 kg against 1.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.53 kg
🐦 Great Cormorant · AVONET
1.44 kg
🐦 Grey Heron · AVONET
Body length
1.01 m
🐦 Great Cormorant · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Maximum lifespan
32 yr
🐦 Great Cormorant · AnAge
38 yr
🐦 Grey 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 72 million years ago.
Estimates range from 66 to 80 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).