2 clips name both of them

24,964 views between them.

Western Barn Owl outweighs Burrowing Owl 2.7× — 0.4 kg against 0.2 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.15 kg

🦉 Burrowing Owl · AVONET

0.4 kg

🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

11 yr

🦉 Burrowing 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.