Appias paulina
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Appias paulina, known variously as the yellow albatross, lesser albatross, common albatross or Christmas Island white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from India to Samoa, including Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Thailand and Australia.
The wingspan is about 50 mm. The larvae feed on Drypetes australasica, Drypetes deplanchei and Alchornea ilicifolia. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Albatross sighting in Brisbane on a given day, based on 131 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 120th most-seen of the 1083 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Albatross in Brisbane on a given day, against under 5% in August–September and November, the lowest months. That is one of Brisbane's wettest months, with about 140 mm of rain against 40 mm in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow Albatross sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Brisbane, in our data
Brisbane is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow Albatross sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Yellow Albatross that you can see in Brisbane (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Lemon Migrant (about 20%), Common Grass Yellow (about 20%) and Caper White (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow Albatross is recorded against all the insects logged in Brisbane (131 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
