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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ningaloo Marine Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Broad Cowtail Stingray sighting in Ningaloo Marine Park on a given day, based on 58 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 24 sharks and rays we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and August
In those months about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Broad Cowtail Stingray in Ningaloo Marine Park on a given day, against about 10% in January, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Broad Cowtail Stingray 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 Ningaloo Marine Park, in our data
Ningaloo Marine Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Broad Cowtail Stingray sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Dasyatidae
The closest relatives of the Broad Cowtail Stingray that you can see in Ningaloo Marine Park (family Dasyatidae, Whiptail Stingrays) are Reef ray (about 70%), Dragon stingray (about 30%) and Australian Bluespotted Maskray (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Broad Cowtail Stingray is recorded against all the sharks and rays logged in Ningaloo Marine Park (58 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.
