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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mimic Tigerwing sighting in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 58th most-seen of the 72 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.
May, July and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mimic Tigerwing in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge on a given day, against under 5% in February, April, June, August–September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mimic Tigerwing sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Mimic Tigerwing sightings, Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Braulio Carrillo National Park (Costa Rica, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Mimic Tigerwing that you can see in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Malachite (about 40%), Banded Peacock (about 40%) and White Peacock (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mimic Tigerwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge (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.
