adult mink | February to April | 3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat | | Order Carnivora | fur | cooing, screams, hisses | | mink | den under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodges | most of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands | Mustela vison | 0.79-2.31 kg | meadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthworms | | | 420-620 mm | small ears | vison d'Amérique | | bold, ferocious and untamable | all winter | brown to almost black, paler on the belly | | | great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bears | Family Mustelidae |
adult female mink | February to April | 3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat | one litter per year | Order Carnivora | fur | cooing, screams, hisses | 1 year | female mammal | den under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodges | most of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands | Mustela vison | 0.79-1.2 kg | meadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthworms | April or May | 50 days | 420-597 mm | 3 pairs of mammae | vison d'Amérique | 7.6-20 hectares | bold, ferocious and untamable | all winter | brown to almost black, paler on the belly | | babies | great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bears | Family Mustelidae |