Scelotes bipes
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Scelotes bipes, the silvery dwarf burrowing skink or common burrowing skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to South Africa. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Burrowing Skink sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 26 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 26th most-seen of the 35 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June–October and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Burrowing Skink in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in January–May and November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Burrowing Skink sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Common Burrowing Skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scincidae
The closest relatives of the Common Burrowing Skink that you can see in Cape Town (family Scincidae, Skinks) are Cape Skink (about 30%), Linnaeus' Lance Skink (about 10%) and Red-sided Skink (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Burrowing Skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Cape Town (26 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
