One clip names both of them

1,325 views between them.

Mute Swan outweighs Greylag Goose 3.2× — 10.7 kg against 3.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.3 kg

🪿 Greylag Goose · AVONET

11 kg

🐦 Mute Swan · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🪿 Greylag Goose · AnAge

40 yr

🐦 Mute Swan · 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 Anserinae (subfamily), home to 59 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 9.5 million years ago.

Estimates range from 6.7 to 19 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).