🦆
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦜
Scarlet macaw
Ara macao
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
12 views between them.
Scarlet macaw outweighs Mallard 1.2× — 1 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.84 kg
🦆 Mallard · AVONET
1.01 kg
🦜 Scarlet macaw · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🦆 Mallard · AnAge
33 yr
🦜 Scarlet macaw · 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 Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.