The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the Eurasian ermine or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America. Because of its wide circumpolar distribution, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. [1]

Stoats make nests of grass and leaves in hollow trunks, mole hills, walls, banks, burrows, rock crevices (dry stone walls for example) or thickets. The female stoat is territorial in the breeding season, however, male stoats are not.

Stoats and weasels are fast and ferocious, with sinuous bodies and short legs. Part of the mustelid family, learn how to identify and where to see in the UK

Stoats are capable of climbing trees and may take young birds from nests. They make nests of grass and leaves in various locations, including hollow trunks, molehills, walls, banks, caves, and rock crevices.

The stoat is a small predator, with a long, low-slung body that makes it particularly well suited to hunting small rodents and rabbits. It can easily kill an adult rabbit, which is much larger than itself, with a bite to the base of the skull.

May 2, 2019 · Stoats are elusive creatures. In order to keep the stoats in my garden, I turned it into a perfect habitat for stoats. This veritable 'stoat city' was divided into separate 'suburbs' made up of dry stone walls or old twisted logs in which nests and feeding chambers have been built.

Jul 20, 2020 · Both weasels and stoats will occupy den sites around their territory often taking over the tunnels and nests of prey species. During the colder months they may also line their dens with the fur from voles or mice they have eaten.

Like other mustelids, stoats have very good eyesight, good hearing and a strong sense of smell. They hunt day and night, can move quickly, and are good at climbing trees to eat baby birds …

Stoats are very agile, they can climb well and may take young birds in the nest. They are also strong swimmers, capable of crossing large rivers. Their primary food source is the rabbit, despite being many times its own weight, supplemented with small rodents and birds.

Jan 30, 2020 · Bandita is the star of a TV documentary about the little-understood weasel animal family. A beautiful female stoat, mustela erminea, she lives in my garden in Yorkshire, in the north of England, and was filmed two years ago as she raised a litter of five kits here.