Balkan green lizard

Lacerta trilineata Today, 3 October

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

now young dispersing 16 days

young dispersing Reptile here all year

The whole year

15 September – 19 October

the coastal calendar, unshifted

Sitting the year outGetting readyYoung aboutYoung leaving

Where to look

Scrub edges and bramble on the coast and islands; crashes away loudly when disturbed.

Worth knowing

The largest lizard most people here will see, up to 40 cm with the tail. Juveniles are striped and look like a different species entirely, which is why August sightings get misreported.

Look it up

photos, sightings and recordings, off this site

iNaturalist — photos and where people are seeing it Wikipedia — Lacerta trilineata

Regions

where this species is on the list

Dalmatian coastKvarner and IstriaVelebit and the DinaridesSlavonia and the Pannonian plainTukhlia, Ukrainian Carpathians

Phase by phase

dates as they fall in the region chosen above

Phase	When	Length	What it means
wintering in cover	20 October – 9 March	141 days	Reptile dormancy — sluggish rather than truly asleep, and broken by warm spells.
going about the year	10 March – 14 April	36 days	Feeding, holding territory, doing nothing the calendar singles out.
courting	15 April – 19 May	35 days	Song, display, fighting, scent-marking — pairs forming or reaffirming.
on eggs	20 May – 31 July	73 days	Clutch laid and being incubated, or buried and left to the sun.
raising young	1 August – 14 September	45 days	Dependent young in the nest, den or burrow, being fed.
young dispersing	15 September – 19 October	35 days	Young leaving for good, looking for a territory of their own.

Other reptiles in this region

Common wall lizardDahl's whip snakeDalmatian algyroidesEuropean glass lizardEuropean pond terrapinFour-lined snakeGrass snakeHermann's tortoiseItalian wall lizardMediterranean house geckoMoorish geckoNose-horned viper

← All species