Troides andromache
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Troides andromache, the Borneo birdwing or Kinabalu Birdwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found only in Borneo. In 2023, it was selected as the official state butterfly of the state of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
The wingspan ranges from 150 to 180 mm (female), the hindwings are discreetly scalloped. The body is black with yellow marks on the ventral abdomen. Troides andromache is sexually dimorphic. The males have black upperside forewings. The underside of the forewings is black marked, in the postdiscal area and between the veins, with white. The hindwings are yellow with black veins and have a border of marginal black triangles.
The females have white forewings with black veins lined with grey. The black veined yellow hindwings have wide-bordered black margin and a wide submarginal formed of confluent black spots. The subspecies are Troides andromache andromache northern Borneo, Sabah Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
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Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Borneo Birdwing sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 61 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 12th most-seen of the 297 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and October
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Borneo Birdwing in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and September, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Borneo Birdwing sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Borneo Birdwing sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Troides
The closest relatives of the Borneo Birdwing that you can see in Kinabalu Park (genus Troides) are Malayan Birdwing (about 30%) and Common Birdwing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Borneo Birdwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Kinabalu Park (61 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.
