🐦
Gray catbird
Dumetella carolinensis
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Northern mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,936 views between them.
Northern mockingbird outweighs Gray catbird 1.4× — 0 kg against 0 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.04 kg
🐦 Gray catbird · AVONET
0.05 kg
🐦 Northern mockingbird · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
18 yr
🐦 Gray catbird · AnAge
20 yr
🐦 Northern mockingbird · 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 Passeriformes (order), home to 11,215 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.