🐦
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
234,826 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Common Kingfisher 3030× — 94.2 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.03 kg
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AVONET
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AnAge
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.