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Little guy photographed on the decking today - identify.

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    F.R.
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    The viviparous lizard or common lizard.


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    John_Rambo
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    Common lizard? Cool neighbour... Where do you live?


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    Murray007
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    Common lizard, the only invertebrate in Ireland. Never seen a live only, lucky you. The Irish wildlife trust is doing a survey on sightings. Google them and report your location if you can.


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    Mickeroo
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    Nice find, I saw one hill walking once but they're generally rare to spot as far as I know.


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    AryaStark
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    I saw one in Wicklow when I was young and nobody believed me!! About 10 years later me and my dad saw one!


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    locum-motion
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    Murray007 wrote: »
    Common lizard, the only invertebrate in Ireland. ...

    A. Lizards are not invertebrates; they have a backbone.

    B. Abbreviated list of animals that are invertebrates and that are found in Ireland: Slugs, snails, spiders, flies, wasps, bees, cockles, mussels, lobsters, octopus, roundworms, flatworms, earthworms, starfish.


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    NIMAN
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    Murray007 wrote: »
    Common lizard, the only invertebrate in Ireland. Never seen a live only, lucky you. The Irish wildlife trust is doing a survey on sightings. Google them and report your location if you can.

    Emailed them this morning.


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    NIMAN
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    Murray007 wrote: »
    Common lizard, the only invertebrate in Ireland. Never seen a live only, lucky you. The Irish wildlife trust is doing a survey on sightings. Google them and report your location if you can.

    Just to keep you all up to date, I emailed the Irish Wildlife Trust with 3 pictures of the lizard, telling them where I was and to contact me if they needed better quality pictures .......... received no reply from them.

    I notice their website has a sighting of another lizard, also in Donegal, on 5th August.


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    ZiabR
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    Great find!


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    aidoh
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    Lucky you. Roughly where are you living, if it's not too rude to ask.
    Apparently there are plenty of these up around Howth where I go walking often enough and, despite keeping a constant eye out for them, I've never seen one!


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    NIMAN
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    I live in Inishowen peninsula, in North Donegal.


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    NIMAN
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    Just as an update on this one, I was sitting round the front of the house the other day, enjoying the sun, when a similar guy ran from behind me, darted across the tarmac towards the front garden.

    He then sat in the grass beside a tree for a while, I went to get my camera to take a photo, and he was gone when I came back.


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