25th February 2020 Yovanis Cruz, who keeps racing pigeons, admitted killing the protected hawk by firing ball bearings at it with a catapult after it attacked one of his birds The crime was caught on CCTV by a neighbour’s camera Cruz, who ‘acted without mercy’, was fined £801 at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today (25 February) …
Stirling pigeon fancier fined for killing wild bird
19th February 2020 A 60-year-old pigeon fancier has been fined for shooting and killing a sparrowhawk. Duncan Cowan, from Cowie in Stirlingshire was fined £450 after pleading guilty to a charge under section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Stirling Sheriff Court. The court heard that on the afternoon of 18 April …
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