🐦
Arctic Tern
Sterna paradisaea
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,985 views between them.
Arctic Tern outweighs Common Kingfisher 3.5× — 0.1 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.11 kg
🐦 Arctic Tern · AVONET
0.03 kg
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AVONET
Body length
0.38 m
🐦 Arctic Tern · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Arctic Tern · AnAge
21 yr
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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.