Stoats eat small birds and mammals, including the native Orkney vole A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney has been given the go-ahead after it was awarded £6m. The animals are said to pose a ...

"Stoats also tend to kill more than they need and hide – or 'cache' – the rest to eat later," said the Daily Record. "In Orkney, caches containing as many as 100 Orkney voles have been found." ...

cwk15 Stoats look cute but eat small birds and mammals, including the native Orkney vole Sarah Sankey, from the Orkney Native Wildlife Project, told BBC Radio Orkney: "Stoats arrived in Orkney in ...