🦅
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
7.8 million views between them.
Snakes outweigh Red-tailed Hawk 70× — 77.5 kg against 1.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.1 kg
🦅 Red-tailed Hawk · AVONET
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Red-tailed Hawk
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦅 Red-tailed Hawk · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.