🦅
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
21 clips name both of them
48,853 views between them.
Peregrine falcon outweighs Western Barn Owl 1.9× — 0.8 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦅 Peregrine falcon · 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 Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 84 million years ago.
Estimates range from 76 to 95 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).