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- Badgers dig their setts in many different habitats. Woodlands and hedgerows are good places to find badger setts, but badgers will also dig their setts in open fields, moorland, sand dunes, old quarries, abandoned mine workings and even sea cliffs!
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Feb 21, 2010 · The first step to identifying a badger sett is to find a likely area where they might be living. Badgers are surprisingly widespread and they have a fantastic ability to live under people’s noses and yet remain out of sight, so don’t rule out any patch of countryside.
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Badgers are common over most of Britain, living in a wide variety of habitats (though they remain very secretive and elusive noctunal mammals). The badger lives an underground home called a sett, which will typically be towards the centre of their territory or home range. Their setts are usually situated in or near small clearings in woodland or co...
A simple sett is made up of a single tunnel, with a sleeping chamber at the end. However, most setts have several entrance holes, and lots of tunnels which link up with each other. The tunnels also link up with sleeping and nursery chambers. The tunnels may have several interlinking passages underground; and may also be arranged so as to provide a ...
Nesting chambers within the sett are key to the comfort of the badger; as they provide a cool place to sleep during the summer heat; and they provide constant temperature in the cold winter temperatures. Nesting chambers are filled with bedding materials to keep the badger insulated, off the wet soil and to minimize draughts. This is especially imp...
In the UK, the following sett categories are recognised: 1. Main setts 2. Annex setts 3. Subsidiary setts 4. Outlying setts Outside the UK, there is a tendency to identify a badger sett as "main" or "other"; which is a bit simpler. Importantly, the designation of a sett may change over time. Some setts may become abandoned by badgers; and fall out ...
Badger setts are often used by other animals as well as badgers. Rabbits often live in badger setts. Foxeswill also rear their young in setts. These animals live in small setts, or parts of larger setts, which are not being used by badgers at the time.
A badger's homestead is referred to as a sett (in one old reference “cett”). Reflecting the dwelling of what is, in parts of its range, a highly social mammal, badger setts are large and spacious enough to accommodate as many as 35 animals (in the largest naturally supported clan ever recorded in Woodchester Park during 1989), although ...
Mar 30, 2021 · Where to find a badger sett and signs to look for: Badgers need to dig tunnels for their homes, which means very wet, boggy ground is not suitable. You’ll often find setts in raised or sloping ground where they can tunnel forward into the earth, rather than directly down.
Sep 13, 2013 · Badger sett locations - EIR: information about badger sett locations, including all maps or details of Badger setts.
Jun 6, 2019 · How do I identify a badgers set? Unlike rabbit holes, which are usually round, a badger’s sett entrance is commonly found in a D shape and does not narrow inside the entrance. This is a major difference to look out for when trying to identify whether a hole is that of a rabbit or a badger.
A sett is defined as a hole currently occupied by badgers. Below is a picture of a woodland scene depicting a badger sett as well as rabbit holes and a fox earth. Please remember badger setts can be found in a variety of other habitats.
