🐦
Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
14 views between them.
Northern Flicker outweighs Red-bellied Woodpecker 1.9× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.13 kg
🐦 Northern Flicker · AVONET
0.07 kg
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
13 yr
🐦 Northern Flicker · 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 Picidae (family), home to 366 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.