Species Detail - Feral Ferret (Mustela furo) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Northern Ireland Mammal Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Mustela furo
Feral Ferret
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mufur
Linnaeus, 1758
terrestrial mammal
Species
15
8
8
05/01/1969
08/05/2010
5 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 2013)
Centre for Data and Environmental Recording (CEDaR), Northern Ireland Mammal Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Feral Ferret (Mustela furo), accessed 28 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/230/Species/119289>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)