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Mustela lutreola - The Kanadian mink
The European mink is a very rare and vanishing species. Only single
specimens are recorded in the Merkys river basin (not in the Nemunas Kilpos regional park). In
The European mink has been replaced by the Kanadian mink,
which in 1950 and 1953 was released in the territory of north-eastern Lithuania, or
immigrated from the Kaliningrad Region to the lower reaches of the Nemunas (The Punia forest).
The minks' fur is blackish brown, sometimes it is light brown. They change their fur 2 times
a year.
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