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The higher stoat numbers reduce the rodent population and the stoats then prey on birds. [6] For instance, the wild population of the endangered takahē dropped by a third between 2006 and 2007, after a stoat plague triggered by the 2005–2006 mast wiped out more than half the takahē in areas where stoat numbers were not limited by trapping. [7]
Skull. The root word for "stoat" is likely either the Dutch word stout ("bold") [4] or the Gothic word 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (stautan, "to push"). [5] According to John Guillim, in his Display of Heraldrie, the word "ermine" is likely derived from Armenia, the nation where it was thought the species originated, [4] though other authors have linked it to the Norman French from the ...
The following is a list of species (or subspecies) in the Mariana Islands, defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List or by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), as being extinct, critically endangered, endangered, threatened, vulnerable, conservation dependent, or near threatened.
The New Zealand long-tailed bat is considered to be critically endangered (CR). The sei, fin and blue whales are all endangered (EN), as is the Hector's dolphin which is found only in New Zealand waters. The Department of Conservation ranks priorities for conservation with the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
North Island, [82] South Island, [29] [83] Stewart Island, [83] and Codfish Island / Whenua Hou [29] Last dated to 1347–1529 CE. [ 82 ] Archaeological remains indicate that early Polynesian settlers hunted the species and that this, with possible additional predation by Polynesian rats and dogs, was a probable cause of extinction. [ 83 ]
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Newfoundland, Labrador and nearly all of Canada (save for the ranges of other American stoat subspecies) imperii (Barrett-Hamilton, 1904) microtis (J. A. Allen, 1903) mortigena (Bangs, 1913) Baffin Island stoat M. r. semplei. Sutton and Hamilton, 1932 Baffin Island and the adjacent parts of the mainland labiata (Degerbøl, 1935) M. r. stratori ...