🐦
House finch
Haemorhous mexicanus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
20 views between them.
Northern Cardinal outweighs House finch 2.0× — 0 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.02 kg
🐦 House finch · AVONET
0.04 kg
🐦 Northern Cardinal · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
12 yr
🐦 House finch · AnAge
29 yr
🐦 Northern Cardinal · 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.