Officials search for Wisconsin osprey, owl shooter. Antigo - U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service officials are searching for whoever is shooting federally protected raptors in Wisconsin. A spokeswoman for the service's Midwest region told Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune Media at least one osprey and one barred owl were shot in Bayfield County in recent weeks. Both species are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. She said the adult male osprey was shot in the wing and was eventually euthanized.
Raptor Education Group director Marge Gibson said an osprey chick later jumped from a nest into traffic and died and Gibson believes the male osprey was the father of the chick in the abandoned nest. The mother osprey's body was later found decomposing nearby. She said people sometimes shoot osprey because they think the birds are eating fish that people otherwise would catch. The body of an owl, shot in the face, was found in the same area. Father, son sentenced in poisoning of bald eagles, other wildlife. A father and son who operate a large potato farm in northern Wisconsin have been sentenced in federal court in Madison with the poisoning deaths of more than 70 wild animals, including at least two bald eagles.
Alvin C. Sowinski was ordered to pay $30,000 and spend 120 days on home detention. He was also placed on probation for one year and his hunting, fishing and trapping privileges were revoked for seven years. His son, Paul A. Sowinski, was fined $10,000 in federal court. The pair was sentenced on Monday, according to the office of U.S. The Sowinskis, who live in the Oneida County town of Sugar Camp, earlier had agreed to pay $100,000 in restitution. According to documents filed by prosecutors, Alvin Sowinski used an insecticide, carbofuran, to poison bait piles to try to kill predators such as coyotes and gray wolves. Carbofuran is highly toxic. In 2009, the EPA concluded that the dietary, worker and ecological risks for all uses of carbofuran were unacceptable.
Baby birds crushed, stomped to death in Winnebago County. 25 endangered tern chicks stomped or beaten to death, DNR says. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was asking the public for help in tracking down someone who killed 25 endangered common tern chicks, officials said Thursday.
The dead animals were either stomped to death or crushed by someone wielding a rock on an island in Lake Butte des Morts, in Winnebago County, the DNR Bureau of Law Enforcement said in a press release. The bureau is asking for help from the public in identifying whoever is responsible for killing the chicks, said spokeswoman Joanne Haas. DNR staff members discovered the damaged colony on Tuesday night. The checks were about 2 to 21 days old, Haas said. The common tern prefers shorelines, bays and sand bars of large lakes and rivers, as well as sandy or rocky coastal islands, and marshes, according the DNR website. The common tern is listed as a state endangered species. Armed agents raid animal shelter for baby deer. KENOSHA, Wis.
—WISN 12 News investigates an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn. "It was like a SWAT team," shelter employee Ray Schulze said. Two weeks ago, Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant. "(There were) nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth," Schulze said. READ MORE: DNR says its receiving death threats The focus of their search was a baby fawn brought there by an Illinois family worried she had been abandoned by her mother. "When it made a little noise, it sounded like it was laughing," Schulze said. Deer taken from no-kill shelter Tap here to view photos on your mobile device.
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