🐦⬛
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Birds · Least concern
17 clips name both of them
404 views between them.
Blue Jay outweighs Northern Cardinal 2.1× — 0.1 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.09 kg
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AVONET
0.04 kg
🐦 Northern Cardinal · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AnAge
29 yr
🐦 Northern Cardinal · 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 Passeriformes (order), home to 11,215 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.