Balkan green lizard

Lacerta trilineata Today, 3 October
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now young dispersing 26 days
young dispersing Reptile here all year

The whole year

25 September – 29 October

the coastal calendar, shifted 10 days later for this region

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 β€” photos and where people are seeing itWikipedia β€” 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
PhaseWhen LengthWhat it means
wintering in cover 30 October – 19 March 141 days Reptile dormancy β€” sluggish rather than truly asleep, and broken by warm spells.
going about the year 20 March – 24 April 36 days Feeding, holding territory, doing nothing the calendar singles out.
courting 25 April – 29 May 35 days Song, display, fighting, scent-marking β€” pairs forming or reaffirming.
on eggs 30 May – 10 August 73 days Clutch laid and being incubated, or buried and left to the sun.
raising young 11 August – 24 September 45 days Dependent young in the nest, den or burrow, being fed.
young dispersing 25 September – 29 October 35 days Young leaving for good, looking for a territory of their own.

Other reptiles in this region

Aesculapian snakeCommon wall lizardDalmatian algyroidesEuropean glass lizardEuropean green lizardFour-lined snakeGrass snakeHermann's tortoiseItalian wall lizardMediterranean house geckoMoorish geckoNose-horned viperSlow worm

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