$11,000 offered for leads to whooping crane killers

摘要

Louisiana and other donors are offering $11,000 in rewards for information about whoever shot and killedtwo endangered whooping cranes about a year apart.There's a $5,000 reward for information about whoever killed one in Jefferson Davis Parish in November,and another $6,000 for tips leading to arrest and conviction in a November 2018 killing.A 1 ½-year-old crane's body was found Nov. 15 in a rice and crawfish field in the town of Elton in JeffersonDavis Parish, Adam Einck, spokesman for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' enforcement division,said Friday. A necropsy determined it had been shot and killed a day or two earlier.