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r/birding

751K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.4K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
751Kmembers
8.4Kbest post
366most comments
195posts 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.

42% 36% 18%
Gallery 42% Image 36% Video 18% Question 2% Text 2%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Common Loons raising Canadian Geese

↑ 8.4K 💬 166 gallery 2026

Made this Rose-Breasted Grosbeak out of wood with my scrollsaw

↑ 7.4K 💬 273 gallery 2026

A holy grail of birder thrift finds!

↑ 6.2K 💬 366 gallery 2026

Baby killdeer!!!

↑ 4.1K 💬 40 gallery 2026

My uncle's carved birds

↑ 3.5K 💬 124 gallery 2026

I finally found a Common Nighthawk perched and additional in-flight shots

↑ 3.1K 💬 54 gallery 2026

My State Bird (Scissortail Flycatcher)

↑ 3K 💬 36 gallery 2026

Osprey wearing another bird as a hat. St. Mark's NWR, Florida.

↑ 2.9K 💬 54 image 2026

Blue Heron, Great Egret, and Snowy Egret

↑ 2.9K 💬 35 image 2026

I’m not sure these birds can take a bad picture!

↑ 2.8K 💬 68 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.