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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Laura Parnaby

HISTORICAL FACTS: Wimbledon hawk trainer was told to get a proper job in early days | History Defined

PA Wire

Wimbledon’s hawk trainer has revealed he was told to “get a proper job” in the early years of his now hugely successful profession.

Wayne Davis, 59, from Corby in Northamptonshire, has been training Harris hawks – Hamish and later Rufus – to clear pigeons from the All England Club in south-west London for 22 years.

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