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r/birdingNSFW

A place for birders to be. Birding. bird watching. twitching. listing. Whatever you want to call it, if you are looking at or listening to birds, this is where you should be. Founded 2008 · 756.2K members

758.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 82K upvotes, which works out to 108 per 1,000 members.

108peak upvotes per 1,000 members
758.6Kmembers
82Kbest post
2.7Kmost comments
1.2Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 37% 16%
Image 40% Gallery 37% Video 16% Text 4% Question 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

📷 Photo 649 📹 Video 127 Bird ID Request 110 Discussion 51 Art 46 Advice 46 Meme 8 Article 6 Bird ID Request: Identified 3 Social Media 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

No one seemed to appreciate my brown creeper photos on Instagram, thought maybe you guys would!

↑ 82K 💬 1.3K gallery 2025

Family of sandhill cranes on my street in central Florida

↑ 46.1K 💬 673 image 2025

My first ever encounter with a snowy owl

↑ 33.5K 💬 492 gallery 2024

Finally

↑ 31K 💬 357 image 2026

Someones lost pet parakeet is living with a flock of wild sparrows (upstate NY)

↑ 30.4K 💬 456 image 2025

I usually don't take pictures of ducks...but...

↑ 28.3K 💬 182 image 2025

My 10 yr old son wanted me to share his bird arts with you all. He is a huge fan of birds and reptiles. Hope you enjoy it.

↑ 27.7K 💬 656 gallery 2025

My nonbirding(??) boyfriend has sent us another gift from his office window/bird sanctuary

↑ 24.3K 💬 474 video 2025

Had a visitor while having my morning coffee 😀

↑ 24K 💬 171 image 2024

Absolutely stoked to this rare bird in my back yard

↑ 23.9K 💬 354 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/birding, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/birding?
r/birding ("A place for birders to be") describes itself this way: Birding. bird watching. twitching. listing. Whatever you want to call it, if you are looking at or listening to birds, this is where you should be. It was founded in 2008 and has 756.2K members.
How many members does r/birding have?
r/birding has about 758.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 82K upvotes, which is 108 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/birding?
"No one seemed to appreciate my brown creeper photos on Instagram, thought maybe you guys would!" reached 82K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/birding.
What subreddits are similar to r/birding?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/birding?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are image posts and 37% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/birding?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (12.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (8.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (8.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/birding?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/birding has 16K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 396 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/birding, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.