🐿️
Eurasian Red Squirrel
Sciurus vulgaris
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦅
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
852 views between them.
Peregrine falcon outweighs Eurasian Red Squirrel 2.3× — 0.8 kg against 0.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.33 kg
🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
Body length
0.21 m
🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE
25 yr
🦅 Peregrine falcon · 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.