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Northern mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
164 views between them.
Red-bellied Woodpecker outweighs Northern mockingbird 1.4× — 0.1 kg against 0 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.05 kg
🐦 Northern mockingbird · AVONET
0.07 kg
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐦 Northern mockingbird · 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.