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What's this bird?. The place for your bird identification needs and challenges. Founded 2012 · 559.3K members

560.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.2K upvotes, which works out to 66 per 1,000 members.

66peak upvotes per 1,000 members
560.5Kmembers
37.2Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
417posts 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% 40% 15%
Gallery 44% Image 40% Video 15% 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.

North America 317 Europe 37 Southeast Asia 9 Australia/NZ 7 South America 6 Africa 5 South Asia 4 Middle East 4 Artwork 4 East Asia 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Anyone know what these babies are?

↑ 37.2K 💬 2.8K gallery 2023

Lil dude decided to join me for breakfast in NYC

↑ 21.2K 💬 266 image 2024

New guest at my door who this?? 👑

↑ 16.6K 💬 172 image 2026

This baby wondered up to my friend’s wedding last night and wouldn’t leave. Is it a baby turkey?

↑ 15.1K 💬 150 gallery 2025

Bird laid eggs in my tomato plant

↑ 14.6K 💬 555 image 2024

literally yesterday I saw a post that a bird flew into someone's house, and I was still thinking how cool it was, and today I found myself in this si…

↑ 13.6K 💬 192 image 2026

Is this a white crow?He was eating with the other crows in my yard after I fed them

↑ 13.3K 💬 312 image 2024

These Cute Little Guys Live in My Chimney and Make Their Way Into My Home Occasionally

↑ 12.7K 💬 304 gallery 2025

what type of owl is this?

↑ 11.1K 💬 89 image 2026

bird in ceiling lol anyone know what it is.

↑ 10.6K 💬 631 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/whatsthisbird, in numbers

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

What is r/whatsthisbird?
r/whatsthisbird ("What's this bird?") describes itself this way: The place for your bird identification needs and challenges. It was founded in 2012 and has 559.3K members.
How many members does r/whatsthisbird have?
r/whatsthisbird has about 560.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 417 of its posts; the biggest reached 37.2K upvotes, which is 66 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/whatsthisbird?
"Anyone know what these babies are?" reached 37.2K upvotes and 2.8K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/whatsthisbird.
What subreddits are similar to r/whatsthisbird?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/whatsthisbird?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are gallery posts and 40% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/whatsthisbird?
Across 417 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 16:00 UTC (10.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (7.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (6.8K 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/whatsthisbird?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/whatsthisbird has 8.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 151 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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