🐦⬛
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Common Grackle
Quiscalus quiscula
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
76 views between them.
Level on mass: Common Blackbird 0.1 kg, Common Grackle 0.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.1 kg
🐦⬛ Common Blackbird · AVONET
0.11 kg
🐦 Common Grackle · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐦⬛ Common Blackbird · AnAge
23 yr
🐦 Common Grackle · 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.