🐦
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
12 views between them.
Common Starling outweighs Red-winged Blackbird 1.5× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.08 kg
🐦 Common Starling · AVONET
0.05 kg
🐦 Red-winged Blackbird · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🐦 Common Starling · AnAge
20 yr
🐦 Red-winged Blackbird · 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.