🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Red Kite
Milvus milvus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,687 views between them.
Red fox outweighs Red Kite 4.3× — 4.6 kg against 1.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
1.07 kg
🦅 Red Kite · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
no figure yet
🦅 Red Kite
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Red Kite
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
38 yr
🦅 Red Kite · 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.