Editing Sand lizard (section)

== Habitat and distribution ==
[[File:Ящірка прудка скрутилась.jpg|thumb|Puscha-Vodytsia Park, [[Kyiv]]]]
The sand lizard can be found in a variety of habitats. They prefer dry habitats such as outcrops, fields, hills, beaches, [[heath]]land, sand dunes, and rock gardens. While in continental Europe the sand lizard has a wide variety of habitat, in colder places like Great Britain they depend on sand to incubate their eggs and such are restricted to coastal habitats.

Male sand lizards have home ranges with an extremely high amount of overlap; however, female sand lizards have much smaller home ranges (generally less than 100 meters squared) that neighbor each other, or they will even share burrows or basking areas with each other.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Olsson|first=Mats|date=1993-05-01|title=Male preference for large females and assortative mating for body size in the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00183789|journal=Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology|language=en|volume=32|issue=5|pages=337–341|doi=10.1007/BF00183789|s2cid=37769992 |issn=1432-0762|url-access=subscription}}</ref> They highly prefer and are much more active in areas with a wide variety of structural characteristics. This can create different temperature micro areas that they are able to move between depending on their needs.<ref name=":3" />