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Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Birds · Least concern
vs
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
Birds · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
35 views between them.
Red-bellied Woodpecker outweighs Northern Cardinal 1.6× — 0.1 kg against 0 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.04 kg
🐦 Northern Cardinal · AVONET
0.07 kg
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🐦 Northern Cardinal · 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.