Scientific Name: Callisaurus draconoides
Temporal Activity:  Diurnal.  Activity shifts from mid-day to mornings and late afternoons as temperatures increase.
Diet: Feeds primarily on a variety of insects and spiders, but will also consume small lizards and plant material.
Predators:  Preyed upon by hawks, owls, coyotes, ringtails, and skunks.
Breeding: Breeding occurs in spring and summer; one or more clutches of one to fifteen eggs are laid, after 60 to 75 days eggs hatch
Vegetation Association: Prefers open sandy soils with minimum plant growth such as flatlands and washes.
Notes: When threatened this lizard will wag its tail back and forth which like many lizard species can detach and regenerate if it is attacked.
Photo: Taken at Coon Bluff April 3, 2007.  For more photos click on the camera icon.

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