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Unusual Find.
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While walking on cliffs near Ballycotton today my wife spotted this fellow, obviously a foreign visitor as I don’t think we have any native to Ireland. He was about 6″ inches long, photos aren’t great as I only had a small zoom lens with me.
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An identification would be great.
Dave.
Looks like a common lizard, they are native, here is a link http://www.biology.ie/home.php?m=lizard worth posting to them re location of sighting…………Mikka
great, common lizard indeed. Do let the authorities know the general location as their numbers are few :wink:
Thanks for that lads, I certainly will report the sighting even though I never knew we had native lizards.
Dave.
It’s the common or viviparous lizard. We get them at the beach here and usually can be seen basking in the sun when the weather is fine.
Excellent find, they occur further east as well at Knockadoon but as mentioned they are not that common.
MJ
Hello All. That is a common lizard. They are indeed common in Ireland. The Irish Wildlife Trust have a map on http://www.biology.ie where you can mark where you see one on a Google map. Its amazing. I just looked and there are 99 sightings of lizards in Ireland and they seem to be everywhere. I use the site a lot to map what I photograph.
Just as good it is not common knowledge that they live here as people would probably start killing them or something. I love the photographs. You should send them to Biology.ie Lizard survey.
Regards,
Anna.
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