🦉
Barred Owl
Strix varia
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
21,180 views between them.
Barred Owl outweighs Western Barn Owl 1.8× — 0.7 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.71 kg
🦉 Barred Owl · AVONET
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🦉 Barred Owl · AnAge
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · 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 Strigiformes (order), home to 422 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.