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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dusky Knight sighting in Kakadu National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 43rd most-seen of the 76 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.
June
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Dusky Knight in Kakadu National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September to April, the lowest months. That is one of Kakadu National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 350 mm in January.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dusky Knight sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kakadu National Park, in our data
Kakadu National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Dusky Knight sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Dusky Knight that you can see in Kakadu National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Australian Common Crow (about 40%), Blue Pansy (about 30%) and Swamp Tiger Butterfly (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dusky Knight is recorded against all the insects logged in Kakadu National Park (9 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.
