🐦
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
2,919 views between them.
Lion outweighs Common Kingfisher 4790× — 149 kg against 0 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.03 kg
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AVONET
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐦 Common Kingfisher
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🐦 Common Kingfisher · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.