🦅
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,190 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Peregrine falcon 170× — 129 kg against 0.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AnAge
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.