🕊️
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
22 views between them.
Mourning Dove outweighs Red-bellied Woodpecker 1.7× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.12 kg
🕊️ Mourning Dove · AVONET
0.07 kg
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🕊️ Mourning Dove · AnAge
21 yr
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · 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.