In the grounds of a ruined 600-year-old priory in North Yorkshire, the fur of the stoats has turned from brown to white much earlier than usual. Last year their transformation came in January and ...

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, it gave ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stoats are usually chestnut, but in upland areas with higher rates of snowfall, the animals will moult in winter and grow a white coat known as ermine to help them stay camouflaged. White stoats ...

I do not know whether it has been recorded, though I should have thought so, that a stoat's fur of the purest white will, after exposure to light in a museum case for a time, varying with the ...

A trio of stoat-detection dogs have arrived in Orkney in the latest phase of an eradication project. Stoats are common in parts of mainland Scotland, but only started appearing in Orkney in 2010.