🦉
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
3,068 views between them.
Great Horned Owl outweighs Western Barn Owl 3.4× — 1.4 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.35 kg
🦉 Great Horned Owl · AVONET
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🦉 Great Horned 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.