Stout Desert Spiny Lizard - Blog Posts

I saw one of these at Sweetwater Wetlands a couple weeks ago! I'm so excited to have an ID, as I barely know anything about lizards!

[ID: A Stout Desert Spiny Lizard sits on a grey rock, apparently doing a territorial display which looks like it is doing a push up. It is a mostly white and grey spiny lizard with a black shoulder patch, blue throat scales, and various scales with red, orange, and yellow edges along its flanks and back. End ID]

The bodybuilder.

A stout desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) performing his push up territorial display. At Tohono Chul, Tucson, Arizona.