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Sand Lizard

Lacerta agilis

Photo by Jopy
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Field Notes

Description:

The sand lizard has a light underbelly and a dorsal stripe: males tend to be darker in colour and turn partly or wholly bright green during the mating season. Sand lizards can reach up to 25 cm.

Habitat:

Can be found in a wide range of habitat types including meadows, heathland, coastal dunes, grassland, steppe, subalpine and alpine meadows, shrubland, hedgerows, open woodland, in alpine areas, traditionally managed agricultural land and rural gardens.

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Comments (3)
MartinUrban
i'm really looking forward to seeing this kind !! :)
Jopy
Yes, it is! Lizards are not my area, but they can be from now! Here in Croatia we have a lot of endemic lizards on islands, a lot of our islands have their lizard, it's because of isolation, and because the Podarcis melisellensis is very variable species...hope will find some of them :D

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