Eulamprus kosciuskoi
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Eulamprus kosciuskoi, also known commonly as the alpine meadow-skink and the alpine water skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to eastern Australia.
The specific name, kosciuskoi, refers to Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mountain, where the holotype was collected. E. kosciuskoi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8.5 cm (3.3 in). It has a narrow black vertebral stripe and yellow dorsolateral stripes.
E. kosciuskoi is found in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. The preferred natural habitats of E. kosciuskoi are forest, shrubland, grassland, and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes above 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
E. kosciuskoi is ovoviviparous. Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kosciuszko National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Alpine Meadow-skink sighting in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 20th most-seen of the 20 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Alpine Meadow-skink in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February and May–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Alpine Meadow-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 Kosciuszko National Park, in our data
Kosciuszko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Alpine Meadow-skink sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Eulamprus
The closest relatives of the Alpine Meadow-skink that you can see in Kosciuszko National Park (genus Eulamprus, Water Skinks) are Southern Water Skink (about 30%) and Cool-temperate Water Skink (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Alpine Meadow-skink is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kosciuszko National Park (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
