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In the pre-dawn hours of a cold winter morning in the French Alps, photographer Jose Grandío lay still in the snow, waiting for a stoat (Mustela erminea) to emerge from its burrow. He had spent ...
Credit: Getty Images / Photography by Linda Lyon Conservationists are celebrating the success of a large-scale stoat removal project in Orkney. The non-native mammals have wreaked havoc on ...
So in August 2022, when conservation workers on the island identified a single male stoat, a weasel-like mammal native to Eurasia and North America that preys on a variety of animals and birds ...
What happens when two stoats meet for the first time? Well, in the wild, you’d likely get a very different answer. However, in the attached video, we are introduced to a pair of baby stoats ...
It’s ages since I saw Mustela erminea hibernica, the Irish subspecies of the stoat, a ferocious little mammal feared and respected in equal measure by generations in rural Ireland. So ...
Recently, photos emerged of a kiwi caught in a DoC200 stoat trap. It prompted more articles about other native birds being caught in stoat traps, like weka and even our majestic, highly ...
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Orkney's war on stoats
Conservationists are celebrating the success of a large-scale stoat removal project in Orkney. The non-native mammals have wreaked havoc on indigenous birds and voles since their arrival on the ...