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r/birdwatching

124.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
124.3Kmembers
3Kbest post
59most comments
301posts 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.

45% 26% 18%
Image 45% Video 26% Gallery 18% Link 7% Text 3% 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.

Photo 108 Video 44 Bird ID 12 Question 11 Article 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Look at this distinguished gentleman

↑ 3K πŸ’¬ 25 gallery 2026

πŸ”₯ Cuban Tody

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 35 video 2026

Some of my all time favorite captures

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 51 gallery 2026

Some of my favorite portraits

↑ 1.9K πŸ’¬ 36 gallery 2026

So majestic..

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 25 gallery 2026

πŸ”₯The Oriental dwarf kingfisher, a tiny bird painted in some of nature’s brightest colors.

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 9 link 2026

Photographing swallows is hard

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 48 gallery 2026

πŸ’™ Greater blue eared starling

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 12 image 2026

I love seeing these guys in my yard

↑ 865 πŸ’¬ 10 image 2026

Cooper's Hawk!

↑ 851 πŸ’¬ 22 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/birdwatching, in numbers

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

How many members does r/birdwatching have?
r/birdwatching has about 124.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 3K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/birdwatching?
"Look at this distinguished gentleman" reached 3K upvotes and 25 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/birdwatching.
What subreddits are similar to r/birdwatching?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/birdwatching?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 26% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/birdwatching?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 12:00 UTC (520 avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (289 avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (279 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/birdwatching?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/birdwatching has 485 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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