About r/birdswitharms
In its own words:
It's birds... with arms.
Community guide
r/birdswitharms (#946, about 1.2 million) is exactly as weird as it sounds: birds… with arms. Not people with bird heads, and not request threads.
What belongs
Images of birds that have arms (very light samples). Rules: must contain birds with arms; no recent reposts; no people-with-bird-heads; no requests.
Versus photoshop battle humour
Broader photoshop humour allows any mashup. Here the gag is constrained: avian body + arms.
Practical pointers
Don’t post the inverted people-with-bird-heads meme; skip request posts.
The community was created on Jun 21, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 28 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/metalworking (#945) and ahead of r/Cheese (#947) in our ranking.
What sets r/birdswitharms apart
r/birdswitharms is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.1 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.2 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/birdswitharms climbed from 1,124,710 to 1,124,967 subscribers (+257, +0.02%). That is about 5 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/birdswitharms, from 2016 to 2021, ranked by Reddit.
- New Snapchat filter delivering!u/Guggex8 · Nov 3, 2017 · 20,395 points · 359 comments · video
- I don't know where the pic came from, but it looked like it needed arms.u/PoeTheWonderCat · Jul 20, 2017 · 15,153 points · 77 comments · image
- [request] can someone please make the bird on the left tightly clutching a hand bag to her chest and the bird on the right fluffing/holding her feathery collar? (Xpost r/whitepeopletwitter) I cannot …u/BubblyRN · Feb 16, 2018 · 15,135 points · 103 comments · image
- Encountered this specimen in the wildu/jiznon · Aug 27, 2017 · 14,336 points · 108 comments · image
- Hey now, what's all the ruckus?u/OrangeJuicestice · Feb 23, 2017 · 12,828 points · 78 comments · link
- A different take on the theme!Sep 12, 2017 · 13,063 points · 136 comments · image
- When other subreddits try to muscle in on r/Birdswitharmsu/Larry_Gomes · Nov 6, 2017 · 13,057 points · 114 comments · image
- And this is to go even further beyondu/Travyplx · Sep 14, 2017 · 12,597 points · 127 comments · image
- When the timing is rightu/GallowBoob · May 26, 2017 · 11,897 points · 100 comments · image
- In the animal world.u/dmitry80 · May 13, 2017 · 9,169 points · 40 comments · image
Activity and best time to post
r/birdswitharms gets about 0.2 new posts a day. The public archive holds 24,674 posts and 100,714 comments in total, about 4.1 comments per post.
Rules of r/birdswitharms
The moderators of r/birdswitharms list 4 rules. In short:
- Posts must contain birds with arms
- Recent repost
- Peoplewithbirdheads
- Requests
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/birdswitharms and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/birdswitharms?
r/birdswitharms has 1,124,967 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #946 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 257 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/birdswitharms created?
r/birdswitharms was created on Jun 21, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years.
Is r/birdswitharms still active?
Moderately: r/birdswitharms gets about 0.2 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 24,674 posts and 100,714 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/birdswitharms?
The community describes itself as: “It's birds... with arms.”
Is r/birdswitharms SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/birdswitharms as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/birdswitharms?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/birdswitharms accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Posts must contain birds with arms”; “Recent repost”; “Peoplewithbirdheads”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/birdswitharms.