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Garden bird size guide

A wren and a woodpigeon can share the same bird table, and most guides draw them the same size. This chart puts ten familiar garden birds on one scale, using published species-average weights.

Woodpigeon is about 50.5 times Wren at the same measure. Weights are species averages and wing lengths are measured on the unflattened wing, both from AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Each species page links to its Avibase record.

Garden Bird	Average weight	Wing length	Scientific name
Woodpigeon	490 g	246.4 mm	Columba palumbus
Blackbird	102.7 g	128.4 mm	Turdus merula
Starling	77.1 g	128.3 mm	Sturnus vulgaris
House Sparrow	26.5 g	74.9 mm	Passer domesticus
Chaffinch	23.8 g	85.9 mm	Fringilla coelebs
Robin	17.7 g	71.6 mm	Erithacus rubecula
Great Tit	16.2 g	70.9 mm	Parus major
Goldfinch	16 g	77.4 mm	Carduelis carduelis
Blue Tit	11.1 g	65.6 mm	Cyanistes caeruleus
Wren	9.7 g	48.5 mm	Troglodytes troglodytes

Data: AVONET, Tobias et al. (2022) Ecology Letters 25:581-597, doi:10.1111/ele.13898, CC BY 4.0. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes: Species averages rounded to one decimal place and shown to scale. Checked 2026-09-16.

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Two garden birds people often mix up, and the measurements that separate them.

Garden Birds, Weighed

Ten familiar garden birds on one scale, by published species-average body mass.

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