Insecta · Lepidoptera
Richmond Birdwing
Ornithoptera richmondia
Caterpillars can develop on only one native vine species in warm lowland forest and a second, related vine at cooler higher elevation, forcing highland colonies to shift downslope each winter to survive.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 542 licence-filtered records across 9 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (11)
- DPIE Default Sightings (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Individual sighting (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Noosa Council miscellaneous wildlife records (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)