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r/Owls

Hooooot. Hoo! A place for photos, art, and discussion of owls Founded 2008 · 178.6K members

178.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 38.4K upvotes, which works out to 215 per 1,000 members.

215peak upvotes per 1,000 members
178.9Kmembers
38.4Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
496posts 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.

44% 28% 19%
Image 44% Gallery 28% Video 19% Link 6% 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.

OC 110 ID request! 30 [editable flair] 5 Art 1 D500-180-600 1 Videos 1 Facts About Owls Needed 1 curious 1 Artwork/Meme 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Saw an owl land on someone’s head out at sea

↑ 38.4K 💬 316 video 2025

Went on a hike and learned about Owls ‘sunning’ first hand

↑ 19.6K 💬 173 video 2025

Saving an Owl

↑ 17.1K 💬 88 video 2024

My first snowy owl encounter

↑ 13.7K 💬 143 gallery 2024

Who who is looking through my window.

↑ 13.3K 💬 230 gallery 2025

My parents just checked their owl box

↑ 12.9K 💬 149 gallery 2026

Barred Owl Encounter!

↑ 12.7K 💬 154 video 2023

owl in mailbox, possibly roosting?

↑ 11.5K 💬 292 gallery 2025

A Mom and her Owlet are nested up on the 3rd floor window at my college.

↑ 11.4K 💬 106 gallery 2026

Owl in Yard

↑ 10.4K 💬 153 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Owls, in numbers

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

What is r/Owls?
r/Owls ("Hooooot") describes itself this way: Hoo! A place for photos, art, and discussion of owls. It was founded in 2008 and has 178.6K members.
How many members does r/Owls have?
r/Owls has about 178.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 496 of its posts; the biggest reached 38.4K upvotes, which is 215 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Owls?
"Saw an owl land on someone’s head out at sea" reached 38.4K upvotes and 316 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Owls.
What subreddits are similar to r/Owls?
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/Owls?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 28% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Owls?
Across 496 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (10.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (6.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 01:00 UTC (5.8K 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/Owls?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Owls has 7.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 10 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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