🦩
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦅
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
3.3 million views between them.
Great Blue Heron outweighs Peregrine falcon 3.3× — 2.5 kg against 0.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.52 kg
🦩 Great Blue Heron · AVONET
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
Body length
1.3 m
🦩 Great Blue Heron · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦩 Great Blue Heron · AnAge
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 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.