{"id":584616,"date":"2026-05-15T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:29:08","slug":"first-spotting-of-a-stoat-confirmed-in-orkneys-outer-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584616\/","title":{"rendered":"First spotting of a stoat confirmed in Orkney&#8217;s outer isles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stoat scat was initially spotted in Rousay in early April, and the ONWP were quick to set up a variety of traps, trail cameras, and AI cameras that alert the team when they are approaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their presence was ultimately confirmed by two images captured by a remote camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sankey said the gravity of the situation depends on the sex and number of the stoats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Stoats don&#8217;t live very long, so a single male by itself is not going to do too much damage &#8211; it can&#8217;t grow the population. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Worst case scenario is that we have more than one stoat, and obviously a female in the mix would mean more stoats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is the breeding season so it&#8217;s a bad time for this to be happening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s male or female, it&#8217;s very difficult to tell from the camera footage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoat scat was initially spotted in Rousay in early April, and the ONWP were quick to set up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-584616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}