Podarcis bocagei
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Bocage's wall lizard (Podarcis bocagei) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, sandy shores, rural gardens, and urban areas. The IUCN does not consider it to be threatened.
Both the specific name, bocagei, and the common name, Bocage's wall lizard, are in honor of Portuguese zoologist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage. Bocage's wall lizard grows to a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 7 cm (2.8 in), with a tail twice SVL. Males are larger than females. It is a sturdy lizard, somewhat flattened, and resembling Carbonell's wall lizard (Podarcis carbonelli). The dorsal surface is usually grey or yellowish-brown, but is sometimes green in males, copiously speckled with rows of dark markings. The flanks may be brownish or yellowish. The underparts are white, yellow, pink, or orange, but there are not any of the small blue spots along the edge of the belly which are often present in Carbonell's wall lizard.
Bocage's wall lizard is found in northern Portugal and northwestern... Wikipedia →
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Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Bocage's Wall Lizard sighting in Porto on a given day, based on 320 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the most-seen of the 16 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Bocage's Wall Lizard in Porto on a given day, against about 20% in December and January, the lowest months.
Only Porto, in our data
Porto is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bocage's Wall Lizard sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lacertidae
The closest relatives of the Bocage's Wall Lizard that you can see in Porto (family Lacertidae, Wall Lizards) are Ocellated Lizard (about 20%), Iberian Emerald Lizard (about 10%) and Madeira Lizard (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bocage's Wall Lizard is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Porto (320 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.
