How To Use Stoat In A Sentence
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Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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The Croatian currency is the kuna, apparently named after a small furry animal like a stoat or weasel, the pelts of which used to be traded.
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Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron".
A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
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The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
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A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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What is the difference between weasels and stoats in winter?
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September 29, 2009 at 9:00 am drinked too much stoat?
I’z a lil teepot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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The rabbits you are after may already have been bolted by natural predators such as stoats, weasels, mink and pine martens.
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Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.
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go easy on us stoats…life is hard out there for an ermin!
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The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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As mustelids - stoats, ferrets and weasels - were highly mobile and curious, it would be expected that if there were stoats on the island they would have encountered one of the tunnels or traps in their travels.
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A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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Europeans arrived in the early 1800s, bringing with them mustelids (stoats, ferrets, and weasels), cats, and two more species of rats.
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Ferrets and stoats, introduced by European settlers in the nineteenth century, pushed the birds further into the backblocks of New Zealand.
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On this day, one crone came in from the woods, carrying a stoat, its throat a splash of red.
STARDUST
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They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
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The little English stoat, which is destroyed by the gamekeepers, becomes the beautiful snow-white ermine in Russia and other cold countries.
Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
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They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
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Yet nothing will deter my teams of trained stoats, ferrets and weasels from carrying out my orders and enabling me to achieve ultimate power.
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In bygone days many stoats were slaughtered to provide skins for ermine robes.
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Other animals spotted in Greater Manchester include otters, stoats and weasels.
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In addition to the birds, there are numerous stoats, weasels, possums, and other things there.
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They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
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Stockport first citizen Ken Holt, an anti-cruelty campaigner, objected on moral grounds because it was decorated with ermine - the winter coat of the stoat.
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They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie.
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Opposite me sat a man with a ferret or stoat (I'm not sure of the difference) sitting in the inside pocket of his jacket, from where it surveyed the rest of the carriage as he stroked its silky head.
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The robe is trimmed with ermine, which is the white winter coat of the stoat in northern regions of Europe.
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wangled" leave; I did myself see an application which would have wrung scalding tears from the eyes of a stoat, whose moving theme originated entirely in the fertile brain of one of the man's comrades.
With Our Army in Palestine
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A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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And I now know the difference between stoats and weasels.
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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To minimize the risk of predation, which was mainly by stoats, Mustela erminea, and polecats, Mustela putorius, nest visits were kept to a minimum.
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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A member of the mustelid family, which includes the stoat and badger, the polecat is the size of a ferret.
Times, Sunday Times
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There must be some kind of gradation here in which stoats are classed as less obnoxious than weasels, although they are relatives.
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Animal life is quite varied, consisting of diverse mammals: the wild northern reindeer; furbearing animals such as Arctic foxes, red foxes, rabbit, stoats, musquashes, and so forth; ptarmigan; and waterfowl.
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Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders.
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Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators.
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
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The problems which concern those who care for the park mainly arise from introduced species - wasps, possums, stoats, weasels, and feral cats.
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Now the shadows were coming into focus; they were a motley rabble of creatures, ranging from otters to voles, stoats and squirrels, and even a few moles.
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The decline of the New Zealand dotterel is due to several factors, but in particular, introduced predators such as cats, stoats and ferrets.
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders.
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You could have possums, chamois, ferrets, stoats, flopsy bunnykins and even the common cat.
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Ewan, kitted out in sharp suitings, is about as attractive as a stoat in a tux.
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In the mainland island in the Nelson Lakes National Park the focus is to be on a whole range of pests - wasps, possums, rodents and mustelids (mainly stoats, but also ferrets and weasels), deer and feral cats.
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The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank.
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Does the boss who scheduled your sadly abbreviated lunch break deserve to be called a weasel or a stoat?
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A labour-intensive programme of trapping will reduce the numbers of stoats and feral cats.
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As an ecologist and environmental writer, one of my main interests is to understand the damage that relatively recent introductions - from stoats to wasps to possums - have wreaked on native plants and animals.
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The main predators which are depleting the bird population in native forest are possums, stoats, rats and mice.
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Scientists are attempting to save birds like this one by translocating them to offshore islands free of introduced predators like rats, cats, stoats, and weasels.
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The robe is trimmed with ermine, which is the white winter coat of the stoat in northern regions of Europe.
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A stoat had invaded the territory.
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Please pass on my thanks and regards to your friend, Stoatie.
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The Tracking Mammals Partnership also aims to carry out surveys of otters, stoats, weasels and bats to try to determine whether their populations are declining and how they can be helped to thrive.
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Other animals spotted in Greater Manchester include otters, stoats and weasels.
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The stoat scampers along the dry-stone wall, lightly cresting the lichen-covered coping stones.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
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On the other hand, there is a rich community of specialist and generalist predators (arctic foxes, stoats, snowy owls, rough-legged hawks, gulls, jaegers and ravens), all of which feed on lemmings.
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
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They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
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They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie.
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The robe is trimmed with ermine, which is the white winter coat of the stoat in northern regions of Europe.
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Both she and the stoat, with its white winter coat, are looking in the same direction, at something to the viewer's right.
An Exhibition of a Lifetime
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Many small creatures such as snakes, lizards, weasels and stoats would also live in the hills, and bats would have lived in cliff caves.
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The ermine, or stoat, is a bloodthirsty little villain.
Janey Canuck in the West
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The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank.
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Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators.
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Europeans arrived in the early 1800s, bringing with them mustelids (stoats, ferrets, and weasels), cats, and two more species of rats.
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You've been reading that awful little stoat 's awful little book.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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* An animal called the stoat, a kind of ermine, is said to be found in North America, but very inferior to the European and Asiatic.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
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That maidenlike friend of yours has taken possession of my bed, after your mother's routing me up as if I had been a stoat or a dormouse.
The Buccaneer A Tale
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A couple of weeks ago I watched an adult stoat carry a vole in its jaws back to the gap in the wall beneath the sycamore tree where I reckon its nest to be.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
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Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
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Other animals spotted in Greater Manchester include otters, stoats and weasels.
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`At night I've seen a stoat and a fox, and twice at dusk I've seen a man.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie.
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Scientists are attempting to save birds like this one by translocating them to offshore islands free of introduced predators like rats, cats, stoats, and weasels.
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We actually want to get rid of weasels, stoats, and possums so that the beautiful birdlife of this country can flourish.
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The rabbit was still jerking slightly as the stoat dragged it off over the hill.
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She was no refined amorist, that one, strong as a bullock, randy as a stoat, and the roughest ride I could remember since Ranavalona of Madagascar — another Black Pearl of Africa, but before I could make philosophic review of this coincidence, my attention was distracted by a gentle pricking of some sharp point under my right ear, and a soft voice whispering:
Flashman on the March
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In the past gamekeepers declared war on creatures they called ‘vermin’ - stoats, weasels and birds of prey such as harriers and peregrines, which were thought to prey on grouse.
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You could have possums, chamois, ferrets, stoats, flopsy bunnykins and even the common cat.
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As mustelids - stoats, ferrets and weasels - were highly mobile and curious, it would be expected that if there were stoats on the island they would have encountered one of the tunnels or traps in their travels.
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Stoats generally construct their own small-diameter breeding chambers underground but I have known a stoat to be evicted from burrows by ferrets.
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But I thought of rats and voles and moles and stoats and ferrets.
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Wrens, ferrets, weasels, badgers, birds of prey, horses' heads and stoats are just a few of the creatures that populate the workshop at the back of his home in Delavale Road, Winchcombe.
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`Masterful, you old stoat ," he muttered under his breath.
WALL GAMES
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She was brought up in the country, rides well (side-saddle), plays a goodish game of tennis, but does not know a stoat from a weasel or notice the direction of the wind.
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