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Location behaviour

 

Common Lizard

Lacerta vivipara

The Common Lizard (also known as viviparous lizard) can live almost anywhere, but they prefer reasonably warm places with good basking sites. Adults can reach 14 cms and colouration can include shades of brown, grey and dark green. They are insect eaters and also eat small snails.

We stumbled across these lizards basking on a fallen birch trunk across a pathway along Sherbrook Valley, Cannock Chase. There were four lizards on the trunk, although had Helen not been paying attention, we could have easily walked right past them.