“A falconer has appeared in court charged with keeping a golden eagle which had not been ringed or registered correctly.
And Jonathan Marshall faces other charges including allowing a barn owl to escape into the wild, stealing a kestrel and falsifying a certificate of an endangered species.
That final charge relates to the golden eagle and it is alleged he did this so he could appear on the Alan Titchmarsh TV show, a court heard this week.”
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Source: Exeter Express and Echo