🦅
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐃
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
77 views between them.
White-tailed deer outweighs Red-shouldered Hawk 110× — 65.3 kg against 0.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.6 kg
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · AVONET
65 kg
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk
1.81 m
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · AnAge
23 yr
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
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 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.