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Sand lizard fact file

  • Common name – Sand lizard
  • Scientific name – Lacerta agilis
  • Size – average length of an adult is around 20cm
  • Identification tips – sand lizards have relatively broad bodies giving a low, stocky appearance. The underlying pattern and colour of both male and female is a mottled brown and beige, particularly along the back. The most striking feature appears on the males, the flanks are predominantly a speckled green which becomes more intense in the breeding season.
  • Preferred habitat – sandy heathlands and sand dunes.
Sand lizard fact file
Sand lizard
  • Diet – primarily carnivores, sand lizards will eat any type of insect and invertebrate eg beetles, spiders, worms, slugs…
  • Breeding – eggs are laid in a small sandy hollow during the months of June and July. The baby lizards emerge around six weeks later.
  • Other points – once nearly extinct in Britain, sand lizards are now protected by law, and are still classed as an endangered species. Numerous successful breeding progammes across the UK have resulted in an increase in the sand lizard population, but there are still only a few places where they live, the heathlands of the New Forest being one of them.
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