Appias libythea
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Appias libythea, the striped albatross, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in south and southeast Asia. Wet-season brood: Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with black costal edge, and grey-black scaled irrorated basal costal border; a black-scaled very narrow exterior marginal dentated baud decreasing from the subcostal to the submedian. Hindwing with very small indistinct blackish-scaled marginal vein-points, which are obsolete in some specimens that probably emerged near the dry season. Underside white. Forewing with the costal and outer edge slightly blackish; a few greyish-black scales along the base of costa. Hindwing unmarked. Female. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with greyish-black costal edge, a broad longitudinal band from base of the costa and filling up the cell — with the exception of a thin streak above the median vein, this black cell-band more or less thinly extends along the upper median veinlet and joins a broad outer-marginal decreasing band extending sinuously from before the apex to posterior angle, enclosing the white sub-apical oblique quadrate patch, the outer band showing faint... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Gunung Leuser National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 4 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cần Thơ | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Yogyakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Davao City | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 4 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 5 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 6 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 9 | Bhubaneshwar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Western Striped Albatross sighting in Kaohsiung on a given day, based on 34 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 56th most-seen of the 218 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Western Striped Albatross in Kaohsiung on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and May–June, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Western Striped Albatross sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
27th of 32
Of the 32 cities where we can rate Western Striped Albatross sightings, Kaohsiung ranks 27th at about 10%. The best odds are in Cần Thơ (Vietnam, about 50%), Yogyakarta (Indonesia, about 40%) and Davao City (Philippines, about 30%).
Same genus: Appias
The closest relatives of the Western Striped Albatross that you can see in Kaohsiung (genus Appias, Puffin and Albatross Butterflies) are Eastern Striped Albatross (about 10%) and Chocolate Albatross (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Western Striped Albatross is recorded against all the insects logged in Kaohsiung (34 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.
