Queen Alexandra's birdwing

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Queen Alexandra's Birdwing NH Icon.png Queen Alexandra's birdwing  
Artwork of Queen Alexandra's birdwing
Real-world info
Name: Ornithoptera alexandrae
Family: Papilionidae - Swallowtail butterflies
Main appearances

Other appearances
Names in other languages
 アレキサンドラトリバネアゲハ
 亚历山大凤蝶
 亞歷山大鳳蝶
 알렉산드라비단제비나비
 Troides alexandrae
 Troides alexandrae
 Mariposa alas de pájaro
 Mariposa alas de pájaro
 Farfalla regina Alessandra
 Птицекрылка Александры
 Vogelfalter
 Alexandra's vogelvlinder

The Queen Alexandra's birdwing (known as the birdwing prior to New Leaf and the birdwing butterfly prior to New Horizons)[nb 1] is a bug in the Animal Crossing series. The Queen Alexandra's birdwing first appeared in Doubutsu no Mori e+ and has appeared in all subsequent games. They are the largest butterfly in the series.

In the games that the Queen Alexandra's birdwing appears in, it is a rare bug that the player can encounter, and can be found flying around flowers. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be caught from late spring to the start of fall.

Catch details[edit]

In Doubutsu no Mori e+[edit]

#5
Queen Alexandra's birdwing
"アレクサンドラアゲハを捕まえた! Oh! アレクサンドラァ~!!"
Translation: "I caught an Alexandra's swallowtail butterfly! Oh, Alexandraaa!!"

Time of year[nb 2] All year
Time of day 8 AM – 5 PM
Location Flying around non-palm trees (Animal Island)[nb 3]
Weather Unknown
Selling price  3,000 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In Wild World[edit]

#8

Queen Alexandra's birdwing
"I caught a birdwing butterfly! A green light in midair!"

Description The largest butterflies in the world, they have been mistaken for birds and shot.
Time of year May – Sep
Time of day 8 AM – 4 PM
Peak times Sep – May
Location Flying near flowers
Bug size Unknown
Rarity Very rare
Selling price  3,000 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In City Folk[edit]

#9

Queen Alexandra's birdwing
"I caught a birdwing butterfly! Tweet tweet, flap flap?"

Description Known as the world's largest butterfly, this species boasts larger females.
Time of year Jun – Sep
Time of day 8 AM – 4 PM
Peak times N/A
Location Flying near flowers
Bug size Unknown
Rarity Very rare
Selling price  4,000 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In New Leaf[edit]

#9

Queen Alexandra's birdwing
"I caught a birdwing butterfly! Wow! It's about the size of a bird!"

Time of year Jun – Sep
All year (Tortimer Island)
Time of day 8 AM – 4 PM
Peak times N/A
Location Flying near flowers (can be found on Tortimer Island)
Size Unknown
Rarity Very rare
Selling price  4,000 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In Pocket Camp[edit]

#24

Queen Alexandra's birdwing

Event availability None
Location Sunburst Island
Size Unknown
Rarity ★★★
Catch rate Cannot be caught at this time
Selling price  3,500 Bells
Request reward  2,000 Bells
4 Heart PC Icon.png Friendship Points
Fortune Cookie, Bronze Treats, Sparkle Stones (1.6%)


In New Horizons[edit]

#12

Queen Alexandra's birdwing
"I caught a Queen Alexandra's birdwing! That's a feather in my cap!"

Time of year North: May – Sep
South: Nov – Mar
Time of day 8 AM – 4 PM
Location Flying near flowers
Weather Any except rain
Spawn requirement Catch 50 total bugs
Selling prices  Nook's Cranny 4,000 Bells
 Flick 6,000 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


Donating to the museum[edit]

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing can be donated to the museum followed by a short monologue by Blathers, the curator.

In Wild World[edit]

"Though I know this is a type of tiger butterfly, its size is simply monstrous! Are you trying to terrify me with this behemoth? No, you wouldn't do that. Rather shabby of me to suggest you would... Please accept my apologies!"

In City Folk[edit]

"Hoo my, what a butterfly... I now see why it's touted as the world's largest butterfly, eh wot? I'd heard the wings of this particular butterfly can extend over a foot...but up close, they look bigger still! If one of these flew into me while I was out flying... I'd likely pass out in horror and plummet on the spot!"

In New Leaf[edit]

The birdwing butterfly flying around in the museum in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Upon being donated, the butterfly can be found in the room of the bug exhibit with the rafflesia. The exhibit has this to say about the birdwing butterfly:

"The world's largest butterflies, birdwing butterflies, have wings that can measure 30 cm long.The females have longer wings than the males, while the males' wings have a deeper blue color. Though they are extremely popular with collectors, international trading is either limited or fully banned."

In New Horizons[edit]

"Hoo! The horror! This behemoth butterfly may be called a Queen Alexandra's birdwing...But I call it the Queen of My Nightmares! It is huge! Indeed, the world's hugest. No butterfly can best its foot-long wingspan. The larvae alone grow to more than 4 inches. As if that weren't appalling enough...they're poisonous! Murderous monsters, indeed!"

When donated, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing flies around the butterfly room in the museum's bug exhibit.

Commissioning a model[edit]

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, if the player brings three Queen Alexandra's birdwings to Flick to commission a model, he will say the following:

"R-really? You want a sculpture of a Queen Alexandra's birdwing? The angel that flaps among us? These glorious spirits are like lenses through which we can see the purity of the Infested Realms. I promise this will be my sublime-est masterpiece, and I shall title it The Grand Queen Alexandra's Birdwing!"

Gallery[edit]

Real-world information[edit]

A real-life Queen Alexandra's birdwing

The Queen Alexandra's birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) is considered the largest butterfly in the world, named after Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. It was discovered by Albert Stewart Meek, who was employed by Lord Walter Rothschild (who named it) in 1907, in Papua New Guinea. It was shot down using a shotgun, but its early stages were discovered and bred through to get to this stage. The female birdwing has a wingspan of up to 31cm, while the male (which appears in game) has a smaller wingspan of up to 26cm. The birdwing flies quite high in the rainforest, making it hard to catch, which is the main reason hunters shoot them with shotguns. The birdwing in Animal Crossing also flies higher than usual butterflies, a reference to its flying habits in the real world.

The birdwing is endangered, threatened by habitat loss. Most of Papua New Guinea's rainforests were destroyed during a volcanic eruption, wiping out parts of the birdwing's habitat.

Names in other languages[edit]

Japanese アレクサンドラアゲハ(DnMe+)
アレキサンドラトリバネアゲハ

Arekisandora ageha
Arekisandora toribane ageha
Alexandra's swallowtail
Alexandra's birdwing

Korean 알렉산드라비단제비나비
Alleksandeurabidanjebinabi

Simplified Chinese 亚历山大凤蝶
Yàlìshāndà fèngdié
Alexandria's swallowtail

Traditional Chinese 亞歷山大鳳蝶
Unknown

Russian Птицекрылка Александры
Ptitsekrylka Aleksandry
Alexandria's birdwing

Dutch Alexandria's vogelvlinder Alexandria's birdwing

German Vogelflügler
Vogelfalter (NH)
Derived from Vogelflügel (bird wing)
"Bird butterfly", shortened from full name "Königin-Alexandra-Vogelfalter"

European Spanish Mariposa alas de pájaro Birdwing butterfly

European French Ornithoptère
Troides alexandrae (NH)
From genus name
Former scientific name

Italian Farfalla cobra
Farfalla regina Alessandra (NH)
Cobra butterfly (mistranslation; see Atlas moth)
Queen Alexandria's butterfly

Notes[edit]

  1. Japanese: アレキサンドラトリバネアゲハ Hepburn: Arekisandora toribane ageha
  2. All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.
  3. Due to its exclusivity to Animal Island, catching the Alexandra's swallowtail requires planting a non-palm tree on the island.