Calls for lifetime ban for falconer who kept birds in 'sickening conditions'

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One of Scotland’s top eagle experts has pleaded for a lifetime ban on a wildlife centre owner who kept birds in sickening conditions.

Conservationist Dave Anderson was shocked by conditions at the Scottish Eagle Centre, owned by Andrew Knowles Brown, 69, in Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire.A major probe into falconer Knowles Brown led to him being found guilty of keeping up to 90 eagles and other large, valuable birds in squalid conditions.Anderson inspected the premises after an investigation was launched by the SSPCA and said he was traumatised by having to hold a tawny eagle as a vet euthanised it on the spot.He said: “The bird’s wings were badly damaged, it had been suffering for a long time.

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