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Welcome to Ornithology, a subreddit dedicated to the scientific study of wild birds. This is a place to discuss wild birds in a scientific context — their biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and more. Founded 2009 · 421.8K members

422.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.4K upvotes, which works out to 32 per 1,000 members.

32peak upvotes per 1,000 members
422.8Kmembers
13.4Kbest post
418most comments
202posts 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.

28% 26% 25% 9%
Video 28% Gallery 26% Image 25% Question 9% Link 7% Text 5%

The topics it labels

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

Question 23 Discussion 6 Fun Fact 5 r/birding (not this sub!) 4 Event 4 r/birdpics (not this sub!) 1 R.I.P. 1 Article 1 Study 1 Try r/WildlifeRehab 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Why would a humming bird be so trust worthy with me and human?

↑ 13.4K 💬 119 video 2025

Rare yellow cardinal

↑ 13.2K 💬 76 image 2024

What exactly is going on here?

↑ 11.4K 💬 83 video 2025

Walk of the Cinereous vulture

↑ 10.6K 💬 309 video 2025

Can anyone explain this Pelican behaviour?

↑ 10.2K 💬 246 video 2025

Bald Eagle couple, and she is a rare blonde. Not my picture.

↑ 9.3K 💬 65 image 2025

What is this owl doing?

↑ 9.2K 💬 332 video 2025

What's making Creamsicle the Snowy Owl orange?

↑ 8.2K 💬 142 image 2025

What kind of dye is this?

↑ 6.3K 💬 232 image 2026

I drew a “northern flicker” and thought it would be cool to share bird lovers.

↑ 5.6K 💬 214 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Ornithology, in numbers

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

What is r/Ornithology?
r/Ornithology describes itself this way: Welcome to Ornithology, a subreddit dedicated to the scientific study of wild birds. This is a place to discuss wild birds in a scientific context — their biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and more. It was founded in 2009 and has 421.8K members.
How many members does r/Ornithology have?
r/Ornithology has about 422.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 202 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.4K upvotes, which is 32 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Ornithology?
"Why would a humming bird be so trust worthy with me and human?" reached 13.4K upvotes and 119 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Ornithology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Ornithology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Ornithology?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are video posts and 26% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Ornithology?
Across 202 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 03:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (2.3K 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/Ornithology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Ornithology has 3.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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