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Lizards
Quick answer
You are most likely to see common
lizards or slow-worms (a leg-less lizard) as they are both
widespread across the UK.
Further
information
There are three species of lizard in the UK - the common lizard,
the sand lizard and the slow-worm (a type of legless lizard
often mistaken for a snake). Of these three species, you are
most likely to see slow-worms or common lizards in your garden.
The UK's rarest lizard, the sand lizard, tends only to be found
in heathland or dune habitat and is unlikely to be seen at all
in most gardens.
Occasionally, non-native lizards are recorded in the wild,
particularly the wall lizard and green lizard, and sometimes
newts are mistaken for lizards as they can be a similar size,
shape and colour.
It is important to report your lizard sightings to help build up
local and national records of these declining species. Get in
touch with the local Biological Records Centre and your local
Amphibian and Reptile Group (ARG) if you have seen lizards in
your garden.
Telling the difference
between newts and lizards.
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