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Meanings of pine marten in English

Dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests.

Usage of pine marten in English
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And the new kid on the block is the pine marten.
BBC
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Later I was told that it was a pine marten.
The Irish Times
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Now I'm wary of going out in the garden and accosting the pine marten.
The Irish Times
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And, likely, a pine marten was incorporated into his running adventure story called Wild Wisdom.
The Irish Times
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The pine marten, which is native to Ireland, is a larger cousin of the stoat.
The Irish Times
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Ecologists think the pine marten may create a "landscape of fear" for the greys.
The Guardian
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The mandarins had no ducklings in the nestboxes this year and I suspected predation by pine marten.
The Guardian
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The pine marten is a predatory member of the weasel family, which is also a native species.
The Guardian
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The pine marten is a slinky carnivore, "first cousin" you might say to the stoat.
BBC
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A reintroduced pine marten eats custard creams.
The Irish Times
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The pine marten has, according to Collins's Field Guide to Mammals, a throat bib of creamy yellow.
The Irish Times
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Although weaned by about eight weeks, pine marten kits stay with the mother until autumn, around six months.
The Irish Times
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Research by Emma Sheehy in Ireland has linked a surprising grey squirrel population crash to the pine marten's resurgence.
The Guardian
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Sage grouse, blue grouse, curlew, sandhill crane, porcupine practically extinct; wolverine and pine marten nearly all gone.-(S.N.
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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The last confirmed local sighting - of a dead pine marten - was at Haydon Bridge in Northumberland in 1905.
BBC
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Next morning we heard a thud and looking through a convenient window saw that the culprit was a large pine marten.
The Irish Times
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