Two endangered whooping cranes shot in Louisiana

[jpak]

http://www.utahpeoplespost.com/2014/02/two-endangered-whooping-cranes-shot-in-louisiana/

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents said that someone shot a pair of whooping cranes in Jefferson Davis Parish in southwest Louisiana, killing the female and critically injuring the male on Thursday morning.

The whooping cranes were found and recovered near the corner of Compton Road and Radio Tower Road just north of Roanoke about five miles north of Interstate 10.

LDWF spokesman Adam Einck says the male is from the first group of whooping cranes released in Louisiana in 2011, and the female was from a second group.

Overall 50 cranes were banded, tagged with radio transmitters and released in an effort to create a flock like those that once lived in southwest Louisiana. Thirty-two are still alive.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. What a sad thing, it seems to have been a mating pair, just to make it that much more sad.

Overall 50 cranes were banded, tagged with radio transmitters and released in an effort to create a flock like those that once lived in southwest Louisiana. Thirty-two are still alive.

They were the only birds that had formed a mating bond last year, though they were too young to produce eggs, said Robert Love of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

[onehandle]

2. Guns doing what they do best. nt

[MoonRiver]

3. Low life cretins!