Shingleback

Shingleback

Tiliqua rugosa

40–50% · Likely
overall probability at Flinders Ranges National Park
39 Verified records at Flinders Ranges National Park
October Best month highest sighting rate
☀️ Diurnal When it's active during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, bobtail lizard, and the two-headed skink (often simply shingleback or bobtail); is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia. Three of its four recognised subspecies are found in Western Australia, where the bobtail name is most frequently used. The fourth subspecies, T. rugosa asper, is the only one native to eastern Australia, where it goes by the common name of the eastern shingleback. Apart from bobtail and shingleback, a variety of other common names are used in different states, including two-headed skink, stumpy lizard, stumpy-tailed lizard, pinecone lizard, bogeye or boggi, and less commonly: sleepy lizard. The Noongar Aboriginal people refer to T. rugosa as yoorn in their language. T. rugosa has a short, wide, stumpy tail that resembles its head and may serve the purpose of confusing predators. Wikipedia →

40–50% of wildlife watchers report a Shingleback sighting in Flinders Ranges National Park, based on 39 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

📅 Monthly Probability

10–20
Jan
40–50
Feb
20–30
Mar
5–10
Apr
30–40
May
5–10
Jun
30–40
Jul
30–40
Aug
60–70
Sep
70–80
Oct
60–70
Nov
50–60
Dec

☀️ When They're Spotted

Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)

☀️Diurnal
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Grampians National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
70–80%
2 Flinders Ranges National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
40–50%
3 Ningaloo Marine Park 🇦🇺 Australia
Insufficient data
4 Blue Mountains National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
Insufficient data

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Shingleback in Flinders Ranges National Park?

About 48% of wildlife watchers report a Shingleback sighting in Flinders Ranges National Park, based on 39 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

When is the best time to see Shingleback in Flinders Ranges National Park?

October has the highest sighting rate for Shingleback in Flinders Ranges National Park in our monthly data.

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