Bird keeper faces prison; COURT.
A WILD birds club official has been warned he could be jailed after
he admitted illegally keeping one of the UK's rarest species at his
home.
Sean Fitzpatrick, honorary life vice-president of the National
Council for Aviculture aviculture
the rearing of birds, usually caged birds. , pleaded guilty to owning 20 live red-backed
shrikes and three stone chats. Most of the birds, which were found by
the RSPCA RSPCA (in Britain) Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
RSPCA n abbr (Brit) (= Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) → SPA f
, later died.
Fitzpatrick, 42, of Rotherham, also admitted to the town's
magistrates illegally selling four red-backed shrikes. He will be
sentenced later.
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