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r/Birdsfacingforward

Birds Facing Forward. Pictures of birds looking directly at the camera. Founded 2019 · 174.3K members · links only

175.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 22.7K upvotes, which works out to 129 per 1,000 members.

129peak upvotes per 1,000 members
175.4Kmembers
22.7Kbest post
236most comments
424posts 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.

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Image 77% Gallery 20% Video 2% Link 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.

ಠ_ಠ 57 I am being watched 40 Borbsfacingforward 40 Birb 21 o/\o 20 Addicted to Birdwatching :partyparrot: 19 100% Derp 14 Addicted to Birdwatching 🦜 1 Grumpy cat reborn 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

(oc) The crappiest/best bald eagle photo I've ever taken

↑ 22.7K 💬 211 image 2025

My dad took this photo of a bird watching him work. He was there for hours.

↑ 20.7K 💬 140 image 2025

I was told to post this little girl here 😊

↑ 19.4K 💬 185 gallery 2025

My chicken in the back seat of my civic while traveling across country

↑ 18K 💬 118 image 2025

This guy visited me while motocamping

↑ 16K 💬 236 image 2026

gray heron that stole my food right after taking this photo

↑ 15.9K 💬 194 image 2025

Our zoo welcomed a tawny frogmouth!

↑ 15.8K 💬 172 image 2026

So I got it printed...

↑ 15.8K 💬 184 gallery 2025

Flying at the right angle

↑ 15.3K 💬 108 image 2024

I rescued a Great Horned Owl and it gave a lot of stank face

↑ 15K 💬 136 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Birdsfacingforward, in numbers

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

What is r/Birdsfacingforward?
r/Birdsfacingforward ("Birds Facing Forward") describes itself this way: Pictures of birds looking directly at the camera. It was founded in 2019 and has 174.3K members.
How many members does r/Birdsfacingforward have?
r/Birdsfacingforward has about 175.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 424 of its posts; the biggest reached 22.7K upvotes, which is 129 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Birdsfacingforward?
"(oc) The crappiest/best bald eagle photo I've ever taken" reached 22.7K upvotes and 211 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Birdsfacingforward.
What subreddits are similar to r/Birdsfacingforward?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/Birdsfacingforward?
Of the posts we hold, 77% are image posts and 20% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Birdsfacingforward?
Across 424 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (7.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 06:00 UTC (7.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (6.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/Birdsfacingforward?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Birdsfacingforward has 11.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 43 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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