Boloria pales
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Boloria pales, the shepherd's fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees through the Alps and Apennine Mountains east to the Balkan, Carpathian Mountains, the Caucasus and central Asia up to western China.
The wingspan is 25–30 mm. The wing tops of the relatively narrow forewings, are usually orange-brown and are traversed by a fine, black pattern consisting of dots and lines as are the hindwings. Slightly darkened or strongly melanistic moths are less common. Characteristic is the strong rust-red underside of the hind wings, which is very strong in this species and is only interrupted by a few irregular yellowish markings.
A. pales. Varying above from fiery red-yellow to nearly black, the markings also being very variable, all intergradations occurring between specimens with only vestiges of black and such with the black markings so heavy and confluent that the ground-colour is suppressed. Recognized by the characteristic underside of
the hindwing, and especially by the shape of the hindwing, which has a nearly straight costal margin forming almost a right angle with the outer margin... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hohe Tauern National Park | 🇦🇹 Austria | |
| 2 | Mercantour National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Vanoise National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 4 | Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 5 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Shepherd's Fritillary sighting in Hohe Tauern National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 61st most-seen of the 165 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Shepherd's Fritillary in Hohe Tauern National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–June and September–October, the lowest months. December has too few records to rate.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Shepherd's Fritillary sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Shepherd's Fritillary sightings, Hohe Tauern National Park has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come Mercantour National Park (France, about 10%) and Vanoise National Park (France, about 10%).
Same genus: Boloria
The closest relatives of the Shepherd's Fritillary that you can see in Hohe Tauern National Park (genus Boloria, Lesser Fritillaries) are Mountain Fritillary (about 20%), Thor's Fritillary (about 10%) and Eurasian Silver-Bordered Fritillary (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Shepherd's Fritillary is recorded against all the insects logged in Hohe Tauern National Park (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
