Judge orders man to pay $85K in deaths of two whooping cranes.
FILE - In this March 23, 2018 file photo, a whooping crane, a critically endangered species, flies over a crawfish pond in Jefferson Davis Parish, La. A man who admitted that he and a juvenile shot and killed two whooping cranes in 2016 must pay $85,000 and cannot hunt until he completes 360 hours of public service.
Whooping cranes are among the world’s rarest birds, and are the largest crane in North America. The 850 or so alive today all descended from 15 that lived in coastal Texas in the 1940s. When released as juveniles, they are mottled brown and white. As adults, they’re about 5 feet tall, white with black wingtips and have nearly featherless red caps.
International Crane Foundation North America Program Director Liz Smith said in a letter to the judge that it costs nearly $94,000 to raise, release and monitor a whooping crane in Louisiana. Until Thursday, the highest punishment for someone involved in a whooping crane shooting was a $500 fine and 45 days in jail for Lane Thomas Thibodeaux, who shot one of the birds in 2014.
"I think these birds are basically priceless,” Hanna said during the hearing, according to the crane foundation, which said he ordered Constantin to pay for one of the two birds he and the juvenile shot.
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