Red-Headed Brown Anole

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On February 10, 2013

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Photo by Karen Cusick.

They say redheads have more fun, but is that true in the brown anole world? We’ve had a lot of discussion of A. sagrei that are overall orangey in color, but less about the coppertop look that seems to pop up in populations far and wide. We certainly see it on some of small Bahamian islands, but not others. The photo above is from Florida, courtesy of Karen Cusick’s Daffodil’s Photo Blog. Who else has seen the redheads, and where? And any idea of their significance?

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  1. Pat Shipman

    We often see red-headed A. sagrei on Little Cayman. My impression is that redheads are especially common among youngsters (i.e. very small individuals).

    • Lin Amendt

      We have a bunch of red-headed brown anoles here in Florida, Zip code 33445.

      • Marti

        Loads in Florida zip 33972 also. But this year, not as many of the red-heads as we have seen in the past couple of years. I did see a small one the other day (only about 2-1/2 inches long, including the tail.)

        • Gina

          Just saw my first redheaded brown anole in Lakeland, Florida. It was a young one.

          • Susan Brown

            We have red head anoles in Belleview 34420
            About 4months old

          • Mandy

            I have some in my backyard in Davenport, FL. 33837

          • Robby Williams

            Live in St. Pete Florida all my life. I only see them where red bricks are, like an adaptation for camoflage. Only on the females Ive seen. I work in a red brick bldg and my house is also red brick. I have tons of them. 😁

        • John Metz

          Recently I’ve seen several red headed anoles in Edgewater, Florida, 32141 zip code. Including one in the parking lot at work which was almost totally reddish orange.

          • Toni

            I have several red heads in Louisiana, 70047

          • Lynne

            I saw a redhead anole in Palm Beach Gardens too.

      • Lauda M Sisung

        I’m seeing small (young) red headed brown anoles in Sarasota, Florida 34231

        • Les

          Just saw a juvenile in Saint Cloud Florida. 2 actually. Now that they are here will try to get pic. Never seen an orange head before.

      • Dystanie Law

        We have red heads too. Seems to be more prevalent in young one

    • Ron

      Have several red heads inside my pool lanai. We live in Port Charlotte Fl.
      They’re interesting to watch.

    • SUSAN

      I saw one in my flowers this morning.
      Sebring, Fl 33875

    • Ben

      Just saw my first one in Dunedin Florida

  2. Lisa Cantwell

    I have seen them the last two summers in St. Augustine, Florida when doing research. They are especially prevalent in a newly developed community called Nocatee. I’ve seen both males and females, some of which exhibit the red color along their whole body and tail. I also have a few in the lab that were collected.

  3. Adam Algar

    We caught this obvious red-head on one of Yoel Stuart’s study islands in Mosquito Lagoon, FL back in 2010.

    • Yoel Stuart

      Yup, there were a number of those within the different populations.

    • Damon

      We have red headed Brown anoles here in new orleans louisiana

      • Florence

        Just saw my first one this week! We have tons of brown and green anoles around, but I had never seen the red head before.

  4. Tom McLellan

    These are quite common in Palm Beach, Fl.

  5. Nick Cairns

    The FIU campus at Biscayne Bay appears to have a few of red-headed A. sagrei.

    • Lora Cooper

      I sit by a palm tree everyday. A baby redhead anole and a larger tan anole are each on same tree. They seem to be friends. Except one time they got on the ground next to me and the smaller redhead stood up on all fours as to look bigger. A wrestling match started. Seems as though jelouse. After that they were sitting next to each other in the tree. I talk to them. Gave them names. When I call them they come to me each by there own name. How long does it take for the small one to change into adult color?

      • urbain le_verrier

        From red to tan. I know not. What names did you give the 2?

  6. Brian S

    There’s plenty of ’em around the Orlando area in Florida.

  7. David Heckard

    They show up in the population in New Orleans also.

    • Gwynn Torres

      Ah, David, you’re our resident expert on anoles here in New Orleans! I look forward to meeting you one day.

  8. Jen

    I have tons of them in my yard in Houston.

  9. Mindy

    I saw about 25 of them while mowing today in Titusville FL. And I’ve never noticed them before today.

  10. Mark Outerbridge

    This photo of an anole hatchling was taken (via cell phone, hence the poor quality) by a member of the public in the departure lounge at the Bermuda international airport. Could it be a brown anole?

    • Martha Muñoz

      That looks like Anolis sagrei to me.

    • Gene

      Same here in the Clear Lake area. We’ve got redheads, diamondback, plain gray or brown to almost black, and the original green cousins. Also pale white ones that only come out at night.

  11. Cheyne Kehoe

    My porch and yard are highly populated by these red headed brown anole

    • Cheyne Kehoe

      New smyrna beach Florida. I also just started noticing them.

  12. Bill

    We have noticed a small number of the “coppertops” here in Bradenton, FL. They tend to be paler and have much less obvious patterning. The red in this picture is not as pronounced as others we’ve seen.

  13. Dan seamount

    There are a lot of them in the dog park near the 4 points Sheridan on sw freeway in west Houston.

    • Uncle jon jon

      They are EVERYWHERE in houston!!!
      (not a complaint)

  14. K.ra

    These redheads occur in A.lineatopus on Jamaica too.I don’t have a picture but they look exactly the anoles that Mindy posted above, and have all been juveniles..I suspect mostly male (all the ones I have managed to catch have been).I am beginning to wonder if this red head is just a means for adult males to distinguish between females and juvenile males and whether or not the red color in fact fades as the animal matures.But then again the first picture in the comments is the largest male I have ever seen with a red head, I have never seen anything like that in larges male in either sagrei or lineatopus on Jamaica and the anole dosen’t look like a juvenile to me.
    Maybe its just that a few sagrei keep the red cap into adulthood.

  15. L. Cox

    Just saw one of these today on my patio in Homestead, FL, south of Miami. Didn’t have my phone to take a picture. It was the first one we’ve ever seen. So glad I found this site to tell me what it was.

  16. David Uckotter

    I live in Naples Fl. I must have 50 to 75 Anoles living on my “landscaped” lanai.
    I started feeding them about three years ago just a few meal worms at a time.
    Now I’m “attacted” when I go out there, they come out from everywhere looking for their daily feeding.
    Usually we go out for our adult beverage in the late afternoon and are “attacted” by starving lizards. Some of the brave ones will climb on your lap and eat out of your hand, but most stay their distance and wait for a handout.
    We are up to 500 meal worm every 10 days. I have had to go to the small meal worm for the babies.
    When feeding lizards in the highlight of your day you’re in trouble!
    The grand kids think it’s better than Disney.

    About the red heads…..I have several and don’t know why, none of the adults have red heads that I have noticed. I did notice one thing though. It seem when the males reach the end of their days they turn jet black, become docile, don’t eat and some shed their skin.
    Enjoy the little guys while you have them..

    •

      Jonathan Losos

      Would love to see photos. Or even better yet, video!

    • Dusty

      Fort Lauderdale checking in. I thought I was the only one to feed these delightful little guys. Have one copper-top and a few of his offspring on my covered lushly planted patio., the rest are brown anoles and an occasional curly tail (which I eliminate quickly, as they eat the anoles & babys) Next time try wax worms, the meal worms have a very hard shell casing and can be hard for them to digest, despite their name. I also keep a few shallow water dishes for them to keep hydrated. These little guys all have their own personalities, friendly and so entertaining.

      • Carolyn Belot

        I was so excited as I saw one Saturday on a coconut palm in Port St. Lucie, FL June 19, 2021. I was with a church group or I would have shouted out how beautiful it was. I have been looking for one for a long time !

  17. Mary Dodge

    Just saw one on our patio in Port St Lucie, Florida. Have seen occasionally before. Don’t know if it makes any difference, but we live near, not on, the St. Lucie River

  18. Alaina

    In Naples, FL here and there are two red-headed brown anoles living on my front patio. I just saw a large male brown anole near them and he did not have a red head, neither does the little brown anole (more tan than the others) who decided to move into my house and live between the plant in my window and the dog’s wicker toy box.

    We used to have more but the landscapers ripped out all our birds of paradise and other shrubbery (“to control bugs” they said. >.<) and many of the other anoles and frogs disappeared. Thankfully the cuban tree frogs seemed to have gone with them…

  19. Annie

    I just spotted 3 of them on my patio in Corpus Christi, Texas. I’ve seen more green anoles and brown anoles than I could ever keep track of in my nearly 10 years here, but this is the first time I’ve noticed these red-headed guys. Two of them were male, but my dog chased away the other before I could see if that one was male or female. They just looked like the usual brown anoles, but with very noticeable bright orange heads and necks. Very interesting.

    • Pat Shipman

      On Little Cayman, we have both red-headed A. sagrei and brown-headed. As far as I can tell, there is no ecological or territorial distinction.

  20. Eric Breuer

    I live in the Clermont, FL area near Disney World. We have a very healthy population of brown anoles. As well as green anoles. A lot of our brown anoles are red heads. ?? Very cool looking sub spices of all ages and both sexes.

  21. Sallysmarie franco

    This one refused to leave my porch! He’s cute though.

  22. Tina

    I have a complete brown anole colony living right outside my front window in a Bleeding Heart bush. The amazing thing is that the dominant male is 100 percent red. It’s baby’s are ether red heads and we have a couple that are also completely red. We are very attached and have named the dominant adult male, Red. We look for Red everyday and he is always in just a couple of spots watching over his territory. He defends it if another adult male comes anywhere near it. We also try to protect him from the Curley Tail lizards that eat Brown Anoles. Red is getting older now and is turning a darker shade of red. Ive researched the internet and can’t find anything on why we are so blessed to have Red. I have no idea what caused him to be Red. Our visitors love to come over to see the Red. The love him as much as we do.

    •

      Jonathan Losos

      How about a picture of Red?

    • Mary Dodge

      Where do you live that you’re seeing the completely red anoles. I’ve seen an occasional redhead in Port St. Lucie, FL, as well as the occasional curly tail. Not as many as in West Palm Beach tho

  23. Sandie Pitts

    We have brown anoles at my office in Valdosta GA (south central GA 18 miles north of the GA/FLA border). Some of them are red-headed.

  24. Caleb S.

    I see redheads in my Houston yard

    • Pat Shipman

      We have red-headed and not red-headed sagrei in my yard in Little Cayman.

  25. Robert Vander Velde

    When I moved to Tampa, FL I saw them all the time, wasn’t sure they were brown anoles at first because most of the pictures are of “normal” brown anoles, even though these seem more common here.

  26. Adam Shugan

    Spotted a nice one in Gainesville, Fl. Too fast fore to get a picture!

    • Karen

      I noticed the redheads are the fastest lizards in the yard.

  27. Tom Carter

    I see lots of redhead females around here in Bradenton but no males yet. Here’s a picture of a redhead beauty that hangs around my back porch.

  28. Karen

    I was observing the dozens of lizards outside my back window when I noticed a couple of the smaller lizards resembled the bigger ones. The bigger ones are standard brown anoles. However the smaller variety with heads that are slightly more angular than the bigger brown anoles also sport a copper top, unlike their bigger neighbor’s. I couldn’t seem to identify if this was another variant in the brown anole until I found your site. I also noticed the copper tops were much quicker than the other lizards and pounced quickly on prey from 2-3 feet away and then quickly return to their vantage point. The plain brown anoles tend to creep closer to their prey before catching it and that is why I thought they must be separate varieties because of the distinctly different behavior in the same yard.
    They are all very enjoyable to watch. I live in Jacksonville, Florida in a new home built in an older neighborhood with mostly older, established homes around me and towering trees. The lizards like the fence next to the clearing of my backyard where I keep a garden.

  29. Misty

    I may be a 14 year old girl, but I have a passion for these tiny lizards. I often catch and release these little guys on a daily basis and have gotten very good at it. It seems a large portion of the lizards I find are coppertops like these and they are just like every other lizard. It seems there is no difference. But what I have noticed is that very few adult males that I’ve spotted have coppertops and typically their red is more of a lighter orange than on young males or females. I live in south Florida and these things are everywhere. I’m thinking this might be some kind of really weird and common color morph? Red color Morph brown anoles exist, so maybe the coppertops are somehow related?

  30. seth

    Here in houston tx I’ve noticed some all red adults as well as light colored males with red heads and tails around my yard. Its seems only lightly colored individuals show red colors.

  31. Lynne Larson

    I just saw one in Sarasota, this afternoon. At the parking lot garden at Publix on Bee Ridge. So naturally, I had to find out more about the little guy!

  32. Tom Cranfield

    I saw one for the first time with red nearly everywhere EXCEPT the head. Spotted in Bradenton, FL.

  33. LIcia Babb

    I have red anoles and red headed tan anoles in my gardens in Ormond Beach, FL near Daytona. My red heads are tan/buff all over. July 2016. Of course I also have the brown anoles and our beautiful green ones also.

  34. Gwynn Torres

    We live in a suburb of New Orleans and found this redhead on our patio this week. First time we’ve ever seen one. The patio is inhabited by both brown and green anoles.

  35. David

    I just saw my first red headed A. Sagrei here in Holly Hill, Florida. I tried like mad to get a picture while it was still on a Brazilian pepper bonsai but it was maddeningly elusive. When it tried to make a break for it into some underbrush I tried to catch it but it was too fast- and I’ve been catching these regularly since I was a small child.

    It had a head that was much more red than any of the photos I’ve seen. It was a juvenile, about half the size of an adult so I’d say it was born early this year. The back markings were a diamond pattern that many of the local populations seems to have. I’ll keep an eye out and try to get a picture.

  36. Marti

    We just moved to Florida a few months ago. Have seen LOADS ef varying ages of brown anole, but it was only in the past week i’ve seen the red-headed brown anole. Of course I had to google them to see what they are.

    They seem to hang around one specific area (so far) whereas the others seem to be everywhere.

    Being from a northern state, I am thoroughly enjoying the lizards.

  37. Kathleen

    I have redheads on my Lani in The Villages, Florida.

  38. chawnia meeks

    We just saw this little guy/ girl.

  39. Jake

    I have caught a red head brown anole in ocala fl

    • urbain

      Is your red still alive? This response is 15 months old. Jake

  40. Patricia Tiller

    They are in Boca Raton, FL.

  41. Kimberly I. Montgomery

    Saw one at my house here in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Never seen them before. It had 2 black linear lines down each side of it’s spine. I have big males without the lines and reddish head. Are they the same? He’s huge with an orange dewlap.

    •

      Jonathan Losos

      Almost surely a brown anole if he has an orange dewlap, but get a photo!

  42. Michelle

    I noticed these striking lizards for the first time this year. I’ve only ever seen solid brown or green anoles before. I live in Edinburg, TX.

  43. Kayo

    I saw my first lovely little redhead lizard hanging out with a largish brown anole here in Ormond Beach, FL. The two of them were living on one of my hose caddies in my side yard. Landscapers overturned that caddy and the lizards went missing. About a week later, “Rusty” (as I call the redhead) turned up inside my pool enclosure. Not too long after that, the big male brown anole also came in. He comes and goes, but she stays in. I’m happy to see there can be more of these–I think she’s quickly becoming my favorite. I just wish I hadn’t lost all my green anoles.

  44. Mark Grohman

    We have plenty of the redheads here in South Houston. When the brown anoles showed up a few years ago, our green anole population nose dived and our small European geckos disapperared. I still sometimes find a skink. I don’t know if their populations were impacted.

  45. Paul Braly

    I saw my first one today on North Padre Island in Corpus Christi Texas.

  46. Tom Cranfield

    This beautiful female redhead hangs around my back patio door and on the screen a lot. Her mate hangs around watching her much of the time. He is solid colored, so we’ll see what happens genetically. I hope the red head gene is dominant, so the feature will carry forward in this family. I like the stripe too. Beautiful creature.

  47. Thomas Englebert

    I live in Lutherville, MD and I bought one at a Pet Smart here.

  48. Katja

    Just saw one here in Middleburg Florida..VERY red head, not orange as in some of the images.

    • Elizabeth Caldwell

      I live in Lake Placid, Florida and my lil’ guy/ girl looks like the one in your pic! I’ve so fondly named him “Red” and I call him every morning and he shows up! We have conversations and I’m sure my neighbors think I’m a crazy person!

  49. Steven Richardson

    This is a little further west than the distribution y’all are mentioning but I found one on the north east side of Houston Tx in the Humble/Kingwood area. I wasn’t sure what it was because I had never seen an anole with that head color. Sadly the place I saw it at three years ago has been torn down and houses are there now. It was a kind of swampy area deeper in the forest with a bunch of dead pine trees in the middle of the swamp surrounded by live trees and bushes all around. There were also trees knocked over that we used as bridges to get to different parts of the swamp and catch crawdads, newts, skinks, anoles and a huge diversity of insects, Diplopods, and arachnids and we even got some really cool pictures of deer walking through the swamp. I really wish they didn’t tear it down…

    • Lynne Larson

      that’s very interesting! We are also having to live through constant development here in east Sarasota county, Florida. More people and fewer animals – which is so very sad.

      • urbain

        Very sad. The world needs more animals, and that means more red heads.

        • Lynne Larson

          I just saw another one in the garden this morning!

  50. Caroline Critchfield

    My 8 year old daughter calls a redhead anole her friend because he always looks at her when she leaves the house. We took a picture and identified him from your post. Thank you from Palm Bay, Florida!

  51. C

    I live in Maryland and my property is infested with brown anoles and green anoles and some with red heads.

    •

      Jonathan Losos

      In Maryland? How long have they been there?

    • urbain

      Thank you c from Maryland. You are my 1st e mail from this site.

    • Gabe

      That’s pretty hard to believe, despite the fact that neither of those species has ever been discovered that far North. Brown Anoles have only spread as far North as the very bottom of South Carolina. And Green Anoles are only as far North as North Carolina. If this is true you would be one of the first and if not the first to discover this massive migration in such a short period of time.

  52. George Mohring

    Houston-Clear Lake area

  53. urbain

    We do not have these lizards up north. But I see that there are many in Florida.

  54. I'm Smitty

    Saw my first one in Tampa. Very pronounced markings all around then this red head. we have tons of brown ones, a nice group of green ones, gekkos, etc. But this is my first red:)

  55. Karen

    Just saw a red headed one in my side garden in Corpus Christi, TX. Very small.

  56. urbain

    I am from Cincinnati, Ohio. We do not have this type of little lizard. We have another one. It has been given the name of ‘Lazarus’ lizard. It was introduced to this area by many people a few years ago. It is the same size as an anole. I also love seeing these little critters.

    • Pamela Black

      I see them in Belle Chasse, Louisiana 70037. I think they are new to this area because I had to look it up to find a species

  57. Tea

    Lots of red head anoles in sw fl 33967

    • urbain

      Up here we have Lazarus lizards . They are the same size as the red heads.

  58. J

    I saw one for the first time ever – Neptune Beach FL (Jacksonville). It was a slow mover and my cat was curious – didn’t kill it. I’d never seen one before and wondered if it was poisonous.

  59. DMK

    I’m wondering if anyone can tell me if this is a male or female? It lives in a turtle sculpture on my pool deck. Today I saw an orange neck blow out for the first time. It hangs it’s head out of the turtle sculpture when we are in the pool.

    •

      Jonathan Losos

      A male. The orange dewlap (the structure you referred to) is a dead giveaway, but its body proportions are also stocky, like a male’s. This is a brown anole.

  60. Kim

    Here’s my boy, The Lizard King.. Lives in my lanai by his own choice.. Dodging the birds.. Very smart!!!

  61. Debbie

    I have suddenly begun seeing these red headed anoles in my garden in Houston, TX. The head is definitely red, not orange, and, so far, they seem to be juveniles. Wish I could add a picture.

  62. Gina

    I have one in my garden. I had to look it up to see what it was because it really stood out. Port St Lucie, 34952

  63. ANTHONY J EVANGELISTA

    I just saw my first red head this evening in Houston. I’ve seen scores of Brown Headed ones and a few Green but this guy really caught my eye. Here from Ohio past 3 weeks.

  64. Ernest Williams

    Small Brown Anole with orange head and white line along back. See report on iNaturalist. East Naples, Florida.

  65. Sue

    I just saw my first red-headed anole in our lanai. We live in Rotonda West, FL. I would send you a picture if there was a way to do it.

  66. Adam Trop

    I see tons of the redheads in my backyard in Hollywood Florida, 33019. I would say the redheads are more common than the non-redheads.

  67. crnugent

    I just saw one in Hidalgo County, TX (McAllen).

    Cheers!

    Chris

  68. Blair R

    This is interesting! I’m in Corpus Christi TX 78413 and I was always under the impression the males were just brown anoles that get the orange heads when it’s mating season and they’re ready to fight for the ladies ? Am I mistaken?

  69. Marilyn P

    Have them in The Villages, Florida 32162

  70. Wendy Browne

    Just took a photo of one in Pearland, outside Houston TX. Was adult size, totally fearless.

  71. Dwight

    We see them occasionally here in South Eastern Texas

  72. Mitch

    Daytona Beach Florida on the Halifax River Zip: 32118 / I watch a good sized 6 inch (3 inch body and 3 inch tail) red head hunt at the corner of my back porch every day. He has been very active all summer into December now. He has a mirror image male just 8 feet further away… they both seem to hunt about an 8X8 ft square area. He eats bugs that cross my porch or disturb the grass at the fringe… ants, spiders, cockroaches etc. Seems to turn up his nose at centipedes. He get’s really excited when a butterfly comes close… get’s all up on his legs as if he would really love to eat one. Fun to watch. A fairly shy black racer snake dens inside his hunting area, under my wall and has also been active but the lizard doesn’t seem to be in danger and is out in the open often.

  73. Hartlyn

    Macedonia, Joseph M.; David L. Clark, Lauren E. Cherry, Natasha E. Mohamed, and Bradley W. Bartel 2015. Comparison of Headbob Displays in Gray-Dewlapped and Red-Dewlapped Populations of Green Anoles (Anolis carolinensis). Herpetologica Jun 2015, Vol. 71, No. 2: 117-124. – get paper here

  74. George Miller

    We have seen orange headed anoles in our yard over the past few years. Generally more so in one area, of three wooded acres near an out building. Are they a different species from the many brown and green anoles we usually see?

  75. George Miller

    Sorry, we are in southern St. Johns county in Florida.

  76. Ed Stock

    There are a number of them that live around my house here on Pine Island in SW Florida. The largest one doesn’t show much fear of me, although if I walk to within a couple of feet it will go under a bush to hide. (I always talk to it when I’m outside and come across it.) I think it has had a bunch of babies this summer, because there are a half dozen or so little guys who look like they might be his (or hers if it’s a female). The red head is much brighter in color on the young ones.

  77. Jeff

    Just saw our first orange headed brown anole here in Manvel, TX

  78. Matthias

    We have a very small population of red headed anoles in Singapore!

  79. Anastasia Vega

    I’m seeing them in my bulk feeder orders now. Not many but enough that I’ve noticed and decided to pull them out and try my hand at a breeding pool.

  80. Jason

    I have some very pretty red headed anoles living in my 2 pineapple bushes in the backyard. Orlando, FL 32824

  81. Todd

    We have several at our home 33952.

  82. Marti

    Recently I have seen 3 anole who were ALL red, not just the head. Is this an anomaly or another type of lizard?? It is possible that the biggest has been seen twice. I know one is smaller. Another person (who had told me he had not seen a solid red one) happened to see the big one and called me over. He was surprised at it.

  83. Thom

    Red Headed female browns in Brownsville TX.

  84. Lindsay

    I saw a red-headed brown anole in Frisco, Texas yesterday. I found this site while trying to find out more about it!

  85. B

    Saw my first redheaded brown anole earlier this summer in Jacksonville, FL, have seen a little over half a dozen more since, and have gotten a couple of blurry pictures

  86. Theo Fenraven

    I saw one today, around noon, near Lake Placid, FL. Pretty little things!

  87. Will strong

    Saw one today in Houston Texas, downtown near the bayou. I Had to look it up at first. When I went back to take a picture it was gone in the brush

  88. Sharon

    I remember as a child living in Central Florida, seeing large numbers of green anoles. No brown at all. Then when we moved to Panama City Beach on the Panhandle of Florida, two years ago, all I saw was the brown anoles. Where did all tge green ones go?

    In the last two months I’ve started seeing a few green and a few redheads. I’m also blessed to have several types of toads and tree frogs visiting my back yard. We had to put in toad/frog ramps in the pool at night for a quick exit. But the anoles seem to walk on water and have no difficulty getting out if they fall in!

    • Steven A. Nole

      I wish the same were true for these big blue trash cans they have us using. These things can be death traps for geckos and anoles.

    • Lynne

      The green anole is native to Florida. At some point the Cuban brown anole was introduced and outnumbered the green. I’ve lived here for 19 years and never saw a green until about 2 years ago. I also started seeing the redheads last year. I even saw one that was entirely red a few years ago. I don’t know if those are morphs of the brown or a different species altogether. Oh…I saw a basilisk lizard last year too. Another invasive I think. Not to mention all the iguanas.

  89. Lynne

    I have them all over my patio, Palm Beach County, FL. I’ve also seen completely red anoles in my area. And one basilisk lizard.

  90. Antoinette K

    I see them a few times, then are gone. Could it possibly be just a temporary color change?

    • B

      I don’t know! Here in south texas I hardly see any fully green lizards anymore !

      • Ian

        They have shown up here about 30 minutes north of Houston this year. First time I’ve ever seen them in 15 years here. The green ones used to be prevalent, and also the little see-through ones that used to hide behind the light fixtures outside but since the black ones have been invading, the green ones have been disappearing. However, because of the freezes we have had the black ones have suffered and the green ones have come back somewhat.But this is the first time I’ve seen the redheaded one. There are two small ones, about two or 3 inches, that seem to inhabit the windowsill and engage with my cat. But I snapped a picture of one almost 6 inches long on the driveway the other day.

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