🐦
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐦
Eurasian Magpie
Pica pica
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
125 views between them.
Great Cormorant outweighs Eurasian Magpie 12× — 2.5 kg against 0.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.53 kg
🐦 Great Cormorant · AVONET
0.22 kg
🐦 Eurasian Magpie · AVONET
Body length
1.01 m
🐦 Great Cormorant · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐦 Eurasian Magpie
Maximum lifespan
32 yr
🐦 Great Cormorant · AnAge
22 yr
🐦 Eurasian Magpie · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 86 million years ago.
Estimates range from 77 to 97 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).