r/birding
A place for birders to be
Founded August 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Birding. bird watching. twitching. listing. Whatever you want to call it, if you are looking at or listening to birds, this is where you should be.
Members
754,890
755K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
71.9
from the last 100 posts, spanning 33.0h
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 13
sampled Sep 13
Distinct posters
89%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 13 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 13 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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Je souhaite présenter certaines de mes vidéos d'Oiseaux, et accueillir celles d'autres membres (pas plus d'une par jour, et de moins de 7 mn) Je les observe depuis un peu plus de 10 ans et je les adore. Je suis en France. I would like to present some of my Bird videos, and welcome those of other members (no more than one per day, and less than 7 minutes) I have been watching them for a little over 10 years and I love them.
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r/birding — frequently asked
How many members does r/birding have?
r/birding has 754,890 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/birding growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/birding yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 13; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/birding?
Around 71.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 33.0h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/birding created?
r/birding was founded in August 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/birding?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 89% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/birding?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/birding yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/birding for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/birding into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/birding's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/birding's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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