One clip names both of them

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Common Buzzard outweighs Eurasian Sparrowhawk 3.4× — 0.8 kg against 0.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.76 kg

🦅 Common Buzzard · AVONET

0.22 kg

🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

29 yr

🦅 Common Buzzard · AnAge

20 yr

🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Animals caught on camera

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Accipitridae (family), home to 529 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 31 million years ago.

Estimates range from 26 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).