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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Royal Firetip sighting in Iguazú National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 226th most-seen of the 306 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Royal Firetip in Iguazú National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–September and November–March, the lowest months. That is one of Iguazú National Park's wettest months, with about 240 mm of rain against 90 mm in August.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Royal Firetip sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Iguazú National Park, in our data
Iguazú National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Royal Firetip sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Royal Firetip that you can see in Iguazú National Park (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Common Mylon (about 40%), Aspernatus Skipper (about 20%) and Southern Sicklewing (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Royal Firetip is recorded against all the insects logged in Iguazú National Park (7 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.
