{"id":694,"date":"2006-11-30T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/30\/clarks-spiny-lizard\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T16:56:11","slug":"clarks-spiny-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/30\/clarks-spiny-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late July of 2006, I observed this turquoise-blue male Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizard (<em>Sceloporus clarkii<\/em>) sunning himself on an alley wall here in Tucson. He only let me get a couple of quick photos before disappearing up and over the wall into someone&#8217;s yard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Sceloporus-clarkii-1.jpg\" alt=\"Clark's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus clarkii)\" title=\"Clark's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus clarkii)\" width=\"400\" height=\"535\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizards vary in color from gray to brown, but whatever their base coloration, they often have a blue tint to their scales. The males have a sapphire-blue throat (barely visible in the above photo). These medium to large lizards can be recognized by their large, overlapping, keeled, point-tipped scales, dark shoulder wedges, and by the dark bars on their forelimbs.<\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizards are climbers and are usually found off of the ground on rocks or trees (or on walls) in habitats ranging from Sonoran desertscrub to oak woodland. Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizards mainly feed on insects and spiders, but they will also occasionally eat leaves and flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late July of 2006, I observed this turquoise-blue male Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus clarkii) sunning himself on an alley wall here in Tucson. He only let me get a couple of quick photos before disappearing up and over the wall into someone&#8217;s yard. Clark&#8217;s Spiny Lizards vary in color from gray to brown, but&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/30\/clarks-spiny-lizard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-reptiles-amphibians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}