On 12 January 2026, at Scarborough Magistrates Court, Thomas Munday pleaded guilty to killing a Buzzard and was fined £1,215.

A Gamekeeper filmed brutally killing a protected Buzzard has been fined £1,215. Thomas Munday pleaded guilty to killing the Buzzard and was fined at Scarborough Magistrates Court today (Monday).

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has strongly condemned the illegal killing of a buzzard after a gamekeeper ...

This is the brutal moment a buzzard was beaten to death in a cage trap by a masked gamekeeper.

A Malton man has been fined £807 for killing a protected wild bird in a cage trap, striking it with a stick, and tossing it into the front of a vehicle.