The Waterfowl Sanctuary YouTube Stats

@thewaterfowlsanctuary · Animals & Nature · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Waterfowl Sanctuary channel overview

The Waterfowl Sanctuary (@thewaterfowlsanctuary) is a YouTube channel in the Animals & Nature niche created in 2024. It has 318K subscribers and 293M total views across 66 videos, an average of 4.4M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 9.3M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 42K views. Over the last 12 months, The Waterfowl Sanctuary published 52 videos (25% Shorts), and 13 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, The Waterfowl Sanctuary gained 166K subscribers and 171M views, about 17M views a day.

How much does The Waterfowl Sanctuary make?

Returbe estimates The Waterfowl Sanctuary's YouTube ad revenue at $18K – $63K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.1 to $0.4, typically $0.21, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $210.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

The Waterfowl Sanctuary publishes about 14.1 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (21% of uploads), usually around 22:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

The Waterfowl Sanctuary's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are The Waterfowl Sanctuary's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Imagine having so many leeches that you can't see2.8M views · Mar 16, 202666.6× typical views
• A starling - hanging by its leg1.8M views · Apr 9, 202642× typical views
• He couldn't move until I helped him1.6M views · Mar 17, 202639× typical views
• Cygnet was unable to free itself1.3M views · Oct 20, 202630.3× typical views
• A Whooper swan with the biggest leech I've ever seen!!967K views · Mar 11, 202623.2× typical views
• I removed this from the swan's throat #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue137M views · Oct 25, 202620× typical views
• Daddy swan creeps up to attack me533K views · Mar 17, 202612.8× typical views
• Daddy swan protects his baby during rescue #wildliferescue #swan #swanrescue60M views · Oct 8, 20268.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of The Waterfowl Sanctuary's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• A young swan tied up in Peterborough18K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• A young swan tied up in Peterborough #wildliferescue #swanrescue #animalrescue2.3M views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• I removed this from the swan's throat #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue137M views · Oct 25, 202620× typical views
• I removed this from the swan's throat140K views · Oct 25, 20263.4× typical views
• Cygnet was unable to free itself #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue4.2M views · Oct 20, 20260.6× typical views
• Cygnet was unable to free itself1.3M views · Oct 20, 202630.3× typical views
• This swan had her mouth hooked into her neck #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue6.5M views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• A young swan rescued on the road - Police stopped traffic #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue18M views · Oct 16, 20262.6× typical views
• Kempston swan with hook in neck YouTube Shorts #swanrescue #wildliferescue #animalrescue559K views · Oct 14, 20260.1× typical views
• Tethered cygnets #wildliferescue #swanrescue #animalrescue7.3M views · Oct 13, 20261.1× typical views

The Animals & Nature niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 647 channels in this niche. 20.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 6.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with The Waterfowl Sanctuary or YouTube.