One clip names both of them

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Common Grackle outweighs Blue Jay 1.2× — 0.1 kg against 0.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.09 kg

🐦‍⬛ Blue Jay · AVONET

0.11 kg

🐦 Common Grackle · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

26 yr

🐦‍⬛ Blue Jay · AnAge

23 yr

🐦 Common Grackle · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Passeriformes (order), home to 11,215 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.