{"id":2610,"date":"2026-02-26T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:21:07","slug":"eastern-collared-lizard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/lizards\/eastern-collared-lizard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Collared Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arizona has some amazing, large lizards. This brightly colored one is an <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/lizards\/crotaphytus\/collaris\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"251\">Eastern Collared Lizard<\/a>. Based on a number of factors, they may be any variation of bright greens, blues, yellows, and oranges. This one was seen at a Prairie Rattlesnake den, carefully considering if we were something it needed to run away from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_O4A5750-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona has some amazing, large lizards. This brightly colored one is an Eastern Collared Lizard. Based on a number of factors, they may be any variation of bright greens, blues, yellows, and oranges. This one was seen at a Prairie Rattlesnake den, carefully considering if we were something it needed to run away from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251,250,137],"tags":[38,252],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaris","category-crotaphytus","category-lizards","tag-arizona","tag-coconino-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}