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Where does the Common wall lizard live?

Podarcis muralis has 413,806 records in 41 countries and territories, from 1600 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Common wall lizard
Common wall lizard — Mariomassone / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataSquamataLacertidaePodarcis

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
France 255,723
Germany 36,507
Switzerland 24,398
Italy 23,042
Netherlands 16,817
Austria 15,748
Spain 14,373
Luxembourg 6,867
Canada 5,367
Slovenia 1,893
United Kingdom 1,717
Croatia 1,624
Greece 1,572
United States 1,272
Hungary 931
Belgium 881
Bulgaria 715
Romania 667
Serbia 612
Albania 514
Czechia 498
Montenegro 486
Andorra 326
North Macedonia 283
Bosnia & Herzegovina 190
Slovakia 185
Jersey 168
Liechtenstein 104
Türkiye 93
Kosovo 56
Monaco 54
Denmark 52
Poland 29
San Marino 16
Ukraine 15
Portugal 5
Réunion 2
Finland 1
Isle of Man 1
Morocco 1

Showing the top 40 of 41 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.