#0029 · 🦊 mammals
Eurasian Pine Marten
🇳🇱 Boommarter ·Martes martes
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what is it?
The European pine marten ( Martes martes ), known most commonly as the pine marten in Anglophone Europe, and less commonly also known as pineten, baum marten, or sweet marten, is an animal native to Northern Europe belonging to the mustelid family, which also includes mink, otter, badger, wolverine and weasel.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 37 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #29 most seen of the mammals in NL.
- 6,434 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eurasian Pine Marten
- Nederlands
- Boommarter
- scientific name
- Martes martes
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Mustelidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 37
- sightings in Europe
- 3,924
- sightings worldwide
- 6,434
- GBIF records in NL
- 15,359
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Mustelidae
#0017 📷 10European Badger
🇳🇱 Das
Meles meles
LC 👀 156 in NL
#0020 📷 7Stone Marten
🇳🇱 Steenmarter
Martes foina
LC 👀 111 in NL
#0022 📷 8European Polecat
🇳🇱 Bunzing
Mustela putorius
LC 👀 64 in NL
#0027 📷 10Least Weasel
🇳🇱 Wezel
Mustela nivalis
LC 👀 51 in NL
#0032 📷 10Eurasian Otter
🇳🇱 Europese Otter
Lutra lutra
NT 👀 28 in NL
#0034 📷 10Eurasian Stoat
🇳🇱 Hermelijn
Mustela erminea
LC 👀 25 in NL
#0061 📷 8American Mink
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Nerts
Neogale vison
LC 👀 2 in NL
#0210 📷 9North American River Otter
🇳🇱 Canadese Otter
Lontra canadensis
LC 🌍 39.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41796, Wikidata Q26046, GBIF 5218878, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.