🦅
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
795 views between them.
Griffon Vulture outweighs Turkey Vulture 4.9× — 7.4 kg against 1.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.52 kg
🦅 Turkey Vulture · AVONET
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦅 Turkey Vulture · AnAge
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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 Accipitriformes (order), home to 563 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.