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r/wildlifephotography

Wildlife Photography: Gear, Photos & Discussion. A subreddit for those interested in shooting wildlife...with a camera. Founded 2013 · 774.7K members

776.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 23.2K upvotes, which works out to 30 per 1,000 members.

30peak upvotes per 1,000 members
776.5Kmembers
23.2Kbest post
856most comments
421posts 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 60% Gallery 35% Video 3% Text 1% 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.

Bird 129 Large Mammal 43 Small Mammal 30 Insect 25 Reptile 9 Discussion 7 Marine 4 Amphibian 2 Arachnid 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I’ve been chasing this shot for five years.

↑ 23.2K 💬 356 gallery 2025

Kingfisher I photographed last week

↑ 18.3K 💬 155 gallery 2025

An unexpected visitor

↑ 17.7K 💬 247 gallery 2025

I was very proud to get this shot (though not the best)

↑ 13.2K 💬 155 image 2025

Some of my favourite wildlife images from the last 12 months. All images were taken in southern Germany.

↑ 12.7K 💬 327 gallery 2025

Met a guy on NYE that works in radio. Found out a few days later that I was roasted on air for being a “bug photographer”. Anyways, here’s an album o…

↑ 12.5K 💬 856 gallery 2024

I got a dream shot in Botswana last night

↑ 11.4K 💬 77 image 2025

Another year around the sun, looking back at some of my favourite shots

↑ 11.2K 💬 234 gallery 2025

My 2024 shots wrapped

↑ 10.8K 💬 149 gallery 2025

The best wildlife encounter of my life: a wild pangolin

↑ 10.7K 💬 122 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/wildlifephotography, in numbers

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

What is r/wildlifephotography?
r/wildlifephotography ("Wildlife Photography: Gear, Photos & Discussion") describes itself this way: A subreddit for those interested in shooting wildlife...with a camera. It was founded in 2013 and has 774.7K members.
How many members does r/wildlifephotography have?
r/wildlifephotography has about 776.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 421 of its posts; the biggest reached 23.2K upvotes, which is 30 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/wildlifephotography?
"I’ve been chasing this shot for five years." reached 23.2K upvotes and 356 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/wildlifephotography.
What subreddits are similar to r/wildlifephotography?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/wildlifephotography?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are image posts and 35% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/wildlifephotography?
Across 421 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 06:00 UTC (7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 11:00 UTC (6.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 08:00 UTC (5.9K 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/wildlifephotography?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/wildlifephotography has 5.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 11 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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