🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Sand lizard live?

Lacerta agilis has 214,806 records in 51 countries and territories, from 1768 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Sand lizard
Sand lizard — George Chernilevsky / Public domain · source
AnimaliaChordataSquamataLacertidaeLacerta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 79,384
Germany 33,611
Austria 23,569
Switzerland 18,783
France 15,472
Russia 9,129
Denmark 6,601
Sweden 5,810
Ukraine 5,587
Poland 5,268
United Kingdom 4,843
Czechia 1,802
Romania 840
Luxembourg 733
Hungary 605
Slovakia 426
Kazakhstan 401
Lithuania 268
Spain 265
Belarus 245
Georgia 132
Finland 104
Montenegro 97
Croatia 96
Liechtenstein 79
Estonia 77
Belgium 70
Italy 69
Armenia 67
Slovenia 50
Bulgaria 49
Bosnia & Herzegovina 37
China 34
Serbia 29
Moldova 27
Türkiye 27
Latvia 26
Greece 23
Andorra 19
North Macedonia 16

Showing the top 40 of 51 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.