The Thorn Birds (miniseries)

The Thorn Birds - 1983 television mini-series directed by Daryl Duke. This television series is the 1564^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series. Article “The Thorn Birds (miniseries)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “The Thorn Birds (miniseries)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 531 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Thorn Birds is on the 1564^th place in global ranking of television series on Wikipedia in all the time.

The Thorn Birds is on the 3006^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11181 in June 2024
• Global: #32507 in January 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #42251 in November 2021
• Global: #3919 in March 2025

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		30.4976
2	Portuguese (pt) The Thorn Birds		27.6494
3	Belarusian (be) Птушкі ў цярноўніку (мінісерыял)		27.3397
4	Dutch (nl) The Thorn Birds		26.6533
5	Slovenian (sl) Pesem ptic trnovk (miniserija)		22.5206
6	Polish (pl) Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)		21.0235
7	Catalan (ca) The Thorn Birds		19.9419
8	Greek (el) Τα πουλιά πεθαίνουν τραγουδώντας (μίνι σειρά)		19.1607
9	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		18.6149
10	French (fr) Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)		16.8905

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Thorn Birds (miniseries)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		2 993 780
2	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		1 445 621
3	Italian (it) Uccelli di rovo		947 248
4	Russian (ru) Поющие в терновнике (мини-сериал)		883 690
5	French (fr) Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)		771 279
6	Polish (pl) Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)		248 460
7	Portuguese (pt) The Thorn Birds		240 943
8	Spanish (es) El pájaro espino (miniserie)		128 749
9	Swedish (sv) Törnfåglarna (TV-serie)		108 178
10	Finnish (fi) Okalinnut		57 006

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Thorn Birds (miniseries)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		14 381
2	Italian (it) Uccelli di rovo		7 916
3	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		3 945
4	French (fr) Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)		3 711
5	Russian (ru) Поющие в терновнике (мини-сериал)		3 531
6	Spanish (es) El pájaro espino (miniserie)		1 442
7	Polish (pl) Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)		1 177
8	Dutch (nl) The Thorn Birds		606
9	Portuguese (pt) The Thorn Birds		583
10	Finnish (fi) Okalinnut		354

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Thorn Birds (miniseries)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		124
2	French (fr) Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)		85
3	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		64
4	Russian (ru) Поющие в терновнике (мини-сериал)		42
5	Italian (it) Uccelli di rovo		40
6	Polish (pl) Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)		35
7	Portuguese (pt) The Thorn Birds		32
8	Hebrew (he) ציפורים מתות בסתר (מיני-סדרת טלוויזיה)		18
9	Swedish (sv) Törnfåglarna (TV-serie)		16
10	Slovak (sk) Vtáky v tŕní (seriál)		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Thorn Birds (miniseries)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) The Thorn Birds		1
2	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		1
3	Persian (fa) پرندگان خارزار (مینی‌سریال)		1
4	Italian (it) Uccelli di rovo		1
5	Dutch (nl) The Thorn Birds		1
6	Belarusian (be) Птушкі ў цярноўніку (мінісерыял)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Птиците умират сами (сериал)		0
8	Czech (cs) Ptáci v trní		0
9	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		0
10	Greek (el) Τα πουλιά πεθαίνουν τραγουδώντας (μίνι σειρά)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Thorn Birds (miniseries)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Thorn Birds (miniseries)		208
2	French (fr) Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)		76
3	Portuguese (pt) The Thorn Birds		76
4	Russian (ru) Поющие в терновнике (мини-сериал)		69
5	German (de) Die Dornenvögel (1983)		60
6	Italian (it) Uccelli di rovo		53
7	Polish (pl) Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)		46
8	Hebrew (he) ציפורים מתות בסתר (מיני-סדרת טלוויזיה)		32
9	Dutch (nl) The Thorn Birds		20
10	Czech (cs) Ptáci v trní		19

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Птушкі ў цярноўніку (мінісерыял)
bg	Bulgarian Птиците умират сами (сериал)
ca	Catalan The Thorn Birds
cs	Czech Ptáci v trní
de	German Die Dornenvögel (1983)
el	Greek Τα πουλιά πεθαίνουν τραγουδώντας (μίνι σειρά)
en	English The Thorn Birds (miniseries)
eo	Esperanto The Thorn Birds (miniserio)
es	Spanish El pájaro espino (miniserie)
eu	Basque The Thorn Birds (telesaila)
fa	Persian پرندگان خارزار (مینی‌سریال)
fi	Finnish Okalinnut
fr	French Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (série télévisée)
he	Hebrew ציפורים מתות בסתר (מיני-סדרת טלוויזיה)
it	Italian Uccelli di rovo
nl	Dutch The Thorn Birds
pl	Polish Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (miniserial)
pt	Portuguese The Thorn Birds
ru	Russian Поющие в терновнике (мини-сериал)
simple	Simple English The Thorn Birds (miniseries)
sk	Slovak Vtáky v tŕní (seriál)
sl	Slovenian Pesem ptic trnovk (miniserija)
sv	Swedish Törnfåglarna (TV-serie)
uk	Ukrainian Ті, що співають у терні (мінісеріал)

Best Rank

Simple English: #42251 11.2021

Global: #3919 03.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #11181 06.2024

Global: #32507 01.2015

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