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Birds: discussion of birds, articles about, pictures of birds. General subreddit about birds and bird-related topics, including bird art, bird science, questions about birds, and bird pictures. Founded 2008 · 206.1K members

200.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.1K upvotes, which works out to 185 per 1,000 members.

185peak upvotes per 1,000 members
200.7Kmembers
37.1Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
260posts 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.

37% 32% 25%
Video 37% Image 32% Gallery 25% Link 3% Text 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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

my original photo/video 28 photo/video/art with citation (not mine) 18 question 6 seeking advice/help 4 bird identification 4 anecdote/sighting/personal story 2 discussion 1 my original art 1 events/news/article/feature 1 birdwatching 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Anyone else disagree with this sub allowing AI now?

↑ 37.1K 💬 1K image 2025

Cardinals

↑ 34.8K 💬 213 image 2025

Is there an ethical way to stop this roadrunner tapping on my window. He taunts my fake owl and shows his butt and I hate him

↑ 26K 💬 1.2K video 2025

UPDATE:This fella arrived on my balcony and now we are friends

↑ 25.3K 💬 431 gallery 2025

Hello

↑ 25.2K 💬 136 video 2025

I was just attacked by a bird and this is the only evidence I have. AMA.

↑ 21.8K 💬 397 image 2026

Swallow landed in my lap wile sailing 100 miles offshore

↑ 19.9K 💬 141 image 2025

He jumped on my finger and proceeded to yell at me

↑ 19.7K 💬 135 gallery 2026

My wife used to feed Magpies. They got friendly enough that this one (Nibbles) came inside for a look.

↑ 19.3K 💬 223 video 2025

A Dark-eyed Junco wearing a snowflake

↑ 19K 💬 50 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/birds, in numbers

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

What is r/birds?
r/birds ("Birds: discussion of birds, articles about, pictures of birds") describes itself this way: General subreddit about birds and bird-related topics, including bird art, bird science, questions about birds, and bird pictures. It was founded in 2008 and has 206.1K members.
How many members does r/birds have?
r/birds has about 200.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 260 of its posts; the biggest reached 37.1K upvotes, which is 185 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/birds?
"Anyone else disagree with this sub allowing AI now?" reached 37.1K upvotes and 1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/birds.
What subreddits are similar to r/birds?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/birds?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are video posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/birds?
Across 260 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (12.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 06:00 UTC (11.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (10.6K 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/birds?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/birds has 14.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/birds, 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.