🐦⬛
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦅
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
523 views between them.
Red-shouldered Hawk outweighs Blue Jay 6.9× — 0.6 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.09 kg
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AVONET
0.6 kg
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐦⬛ Blue Jay · AnAge
22 yr
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · 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.