- Fur colour varies by region.
- It feeds on rodents, birds and berries.
The European pine marten is found within the Palearctic biogeographical region and occupies several ecosystems, including the meadows and sparse forests of the Kamchatka-Kuril Islands, the Sayani mountain coniferous forests, the Kazakh forest-steppe, the Ural mountain forests and taiga, the Okhotsk-Manchu taiga, and the Scandinavian-Russian taiga.