Can anyone identify the animal in the clip? Pine Marten, Mink, Stoat or something else?

This is in Mid Ulster if that helps





by yepyepyepaye

9 comments

  1. Yup, that’s a pine marten. Had one kind of adopt me many years back when I was staying in a snowmobile shack in British Columbia while doing geological exploration.

    Only other animal it could be is a fisher, but the ears and face aren’t right for that and it would also be on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

  2. Yessir. Only seen them in the woods. They were endangered for a fair few years I think

  4. I’m going for a mink. Either way, great catch of a beautiful creature!

  5. No, it’s not a pine, and my name’s not Martin. 

  6. I don’t think it is, I think it’s a mink; a Pine Marten has a very distinctive yellow or cream bib, but mink are all brown. I didn’t see a bib.

    [This is a mink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink)

    [This is a Pine Marten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_pine_marten)

    A male mink is about 60cm (2ft) in length (excluding the tail) and a female is 50cm (19 ½”). The tail is between 12.8 and 22.8cm (5-9″)

    A Pine Marten is 53cm (21″) long with a tail of about 25cm (10″).

    It’s too dark brown to be.a Pine Marten, and has no bib.

  7. They’re so cute.

    Yeah..it probably is.

    >pine martens are present and recovering across all six counties of Northern Ireland, with populations significantly expanding in recent years. Once rare and confined to a few areas, a resurgence has led to their presence being detected in double the number of sites compared to surveys a few years ago, demonstrating a widespread expansion beyond traditional woodland strongholds into various habitats

  8. I think it’s too small for a pine marten. My guess would be mink

  9. I see pine martens fairly frequently and notice them on the cameras because they will “face off ” the cats and dogs in a way I’ve never experienced with a wild animal.
    Looks more like mink to me.

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