The sand lizard is distributed across most of Europe from the southern coast of Britain and across the continent to Lake Baikal in Russia. It does not occur in ...

In the UK, sand lizards are found on sand dunes and dry lowland heath. On heathland they prefer unshaded heather that is interspersed with open bare ground for ...

The sand lizard is one of the UK's rarest reptiles. It favours sandy heathland habitats and sand dunes, and can be spotted basking on bare patches of sand.

They live in a wide range of habitat types including lowland heathlands and sand dunes, meadows, grasslands, steppes, shrubland, and open woodlands.

8 янв. 2023 г. · The rarest of our three native lizards, the natural range of the sand lizard has been restricted to the heaths of Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey ...

It weighs 15g and favours sandy heathland habitats and sand dunes, with scrub cover, and can be spotted basking on bare patches of sand. Out of the breeding ...

They live in burrows which can be up to a metre deep, often hiding the entrance by small plants growing in the sandy soil.

Found on sandy heathland in Dorset, Surrey and Hampshire, also on coastal sand dunes in Merseyside and the Isle of Coll in Scotland. Captive breeding programmes ...

Sand Lizards are nationally scarce due to their specific habitat requirements of open sand for egg laying and mature vegetation structure for cover.