🦉
Great Grey Owl
Strix nebulosa
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
32 views between them.
Great Grey Owl outweighs Western Barn Owl 2.6× — 1.1 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.06 kg
🦉 Great Grey Owl · AVONET
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🦉 Great Grey Owl · AnAge
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · 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 Strigiformes (order), home to 422 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.