Trachylepis depressa
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The eastern sand skink (Trachylepis depressa) is a species of skink found in South Africa. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Sand Skink sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 71 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 11th most-seen of the 27 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.
July and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Sand Skink in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in February, the lowest month. Those are among Durban's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 210 mm in January.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eastern Sand 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 Durban, in our data
Durban is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Eastern Sand Skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Trachylepis
The closest relatives of the Eastern Sand Skink that you can see in Durban (genus Trachylepis, Afro-Malagasy Mabuyas) are African Striped Skink (about 30%) and Variable Skink (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eastern Sand Skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Durban (71 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.
