🐦
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratus
Birds · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
18 views between them.
Northern Flicker outweighs Northern Cardinal 3.1× — 0.1 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.04 kg
🐦 Northern Cardinal · AVONET
0.13 kg
🐦 Northern Flicker · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🐦 Northern Cardinal · AnAge
13 yr
🐦 Northern Flicker · 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.