🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦅
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,662 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Eurasian Sparrowhawk 730× — 160 kg against 0.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
0.22 kg
🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
20 yr
🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk · 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 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.