3 teens get probation for killing 109 coots

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - Three teens have been fined $1,600 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to killing 109 American Coots.

Coots are migratory game birds protected by both state and federal law.

After receiving a phone call tip, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Paul Parthun found 109 dead coots from the Hart Lake near Laporte in northwestern Minnesota last October.

Often mistaken for a duck, the American Coot has a black body with a white chicken-like beak.

The DNR announced the sentences Friday of the two teen brothers from Laporte and another juvenile teen from Akeley.

I sure hope this will teach them a lesson, but who knows....

I've never heard of a "Coot"....At first I thought they killed 100+ "old coots"...old people....LMBO!

Nope Mud Hens are what there called other wise. lolol