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Death Valley National Park leads · 11 parks ranked by real sighting rates
Share of wildlife watchers reporting a Common Side-blotched Lizard during a day in the park, from citizen-science data (GBIF)
| # | Park | Country | Sighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Valley National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Joshua Tree National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Channel Islands National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Zion National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Grand Canyon National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Bahía de Loreto National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 7 | Saguaro National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 9 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Cabo Pulmo National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 11 | Guadalupe Mountains National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
Death Valley National Park
In Death Valley National Park, United States, about 90% of wildlife watchers report a Common Side-blotched Lizard sighting on a given day, the highest of the 11 parks where we can rate it, from GBIF citizen-science data.
Joshua Tree National Park and more
After Death Valley National Park, the next-best odds of seeing a Common Side-blotched Lizard are in Joshua Tree National Park (United States, about 90%), Channel Islands National Park (United States, about 70%) and Zion National Park (United States, about 60%).
It depends on the park
In the top parks, the best months are January–April and September in Death Valley National Park (about 90%), February–May and September–November in Joshua Tree National Park (about 90%) and April–June and September in Channel Islands National Park (about 80%), as the share of wildlife watchers who report a Common Side-blotched Lizard on a given day. Each park's Common Side-blotched Lizard page has the full month-by-month chart.
