🐦
Brown-headed Cowbird
Molothrus ater
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
14,060 views between them.
Brown-headed Cowbird outweighs House Sparrow 1.5× — 0 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.04 kg
🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird · AVONET
0.03 kg
🐦 House Sparrow · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird · AnAge
23 yr
🐦 House Sparrow · 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.