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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
Birds · Least concern
vs
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Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
8 views between them.
Red-bellied Woodpecker outweighs Red-winged Blackbird 1.4× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.07 kg
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AVONET
0.05 kg
🐦 Red-winged Blackbird · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker · AnAge
20 yr
🐦 Red-winged Blackbird · 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.