Eutropis lankae
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Eutropis lankae is a species of skink found in Sri Lanka. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hambegamuwa Sun Skink sighting in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 21st most-seen of the 23 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and June
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Hambegamuwa Sun Skink in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] on a given day, against under 5% in January, April–May and July–September, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hambegamuwa Sun Skink sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte], in our data
Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Hambegamuwa Sun Skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scincidae
The closest relatives of the Hambegamuwa Sun Skink that you can see in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] (family Scincidae, Skinks) are Common Dotted Garden Skink (about 20%) and Peters' Tree Skink (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hambegamuwa Sun Skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] (7 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.
