Birding University
@birdinguniversity · Birding University · Substack profile · Climate & Environment
Birding University has 11,308 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. 33 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 6.
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 11,308
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 7.4K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- 100+
- bestseller badge 100+
- Recommended by
- 33
- +1 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 6
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 11,308 | +33 | 7.4K+ | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 11,275 | 7.3K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
33 publications recommend Birding University; 1 started in the last 30 days. Birding University recommends 6, and 3 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 3 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-01 | 4 |
| 2026-02 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 4 |
| 2026-10 | 2 |
Recommended by
- Voices of Light 🐾🌿💜started Oct 29, 2026new
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- Smiling Through the Tearsstarted Sep 30, 2026
- Wild Places, Wild Birdsstarted Sep 30, 2026
- Wildtones Nature Sounds: Authentic sounds of wild placesstarted Sep 30, 2026
- Rowan the birderstarted Sep 13, 2026
- The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 22, 2026
- Hilton Pond Northstarted Aug 10, 2026 · mutual
- A tiny piece of peacestarted Aug 10, 2026
- Neuro-Mantra Mapping™ Unplugged with MaryLou Hunter, PhDstarted Jul 25, 2026
- CWTCH started Jun 26, 2026
- Stories and Skylines with Cael Shawstarted Jun 7, 2026
- Debra's Substackstarted May 23, 2026
- Beautiful Escapestarted May 19, 2026
- The Mare and the Robinstarted May 19, 2026
- Wing's Substackstarted Apr 30, 2026
- No Lines in Naturestarted Mar 30, 2026
- Hidden Gems: Observing the Beauties and Ahas in Lifestarted Mar 12, 2026
- The Birdtreestarted Mar 6, 2026
- You know, Cannot Name Itstarted Feb 24, 2026
- The Birding Life’s Substackstarted Feb 16, 2026
- Beakuency: Meet Bird People in the Hudson Valley!started Jan 30, 2026
- Pondering Skiesstarted Jan 24, 2026
- The Wondering Birderstarted Jan 12, 2026
All 33
- Naturecorestarted Jan 8, 2026
- The Naturalist's Studiostarted Dec 14, 2025 · mutual
- WonderWild Naturestarted Dec 6, 2025 · mutual
- Gregory Staffordstarted Nov 25, 2025
- Bradley's Substackstarted Nov 7, 2025
- Alex’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
- Naina’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
- Tony Postsstarted Sep 2025
- Michael Kocsisstarted Jul 2025
Recommends
Laura Erickson3k followers · started Apr 11, 2026- Hilton Pond Northstarted Aug 10, 2026 · mutual
- Bird of the Weekstarted Aug 10, 2026
- WonderWild Naturestarted Apr 13, 2026 · mutual
- Birding with BillBowstarted Apr 11, 2026
- The Naturalist's Studiostarted Apr 8, 2026 · mutual
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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- 5 shared
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Publications that recommend at least two other Climate & Environment writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (55 writers in that group), but not Birding University.
- recommends 9 of them
Bill McKibben@billmckibben - recommends 7 of them
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David Turver@davidturver - recommends 4 of them
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Gabe Popkin@gabepopkin - recommends 4 of themAlthea’s Substack
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- recommends 3 of them
Climate Action Now@climateactionnow1
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