Species Detail - Ferret (Mustela putorius subsp. furo) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "National Invasive Species Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

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

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Mustela putorius subsp. furo
Ferret
NHMSYS0020774295 RecommendedWell-formed
Invasive Species: High Risk Invasive Species (2013 Report)
muput
Linnaeus, 1758
Terrestrial mammal
Subspecies
6
6
6
01/04/2010
24/07/2021
5 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 2013)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, National Invasive Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Ferret (Mustela putorius subsp. furo), accessed 22 February 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/397/Species/272262

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)