FORT ATKINSON, Wis., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Sixty ducks found dead on the icy Rock River in Wisconsin may be the state's second incidence this winter of ducks killed by snowmobiles, police said.
Investigators in Fort Atkinson say the birds in the latest incident may have been killed accidentally, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The dead ducks were found Saturday and Monday under a bridge where snowmobile riders sometimes speed up to race over a short stretch of open water.
Lt. Jeff Davis of the Fort Atkinson police urged those involved in the ducks' deaths to tell authorities.
"If something like that happens, you have to tell somebody," Davis said. "That's the honest, ethical thing to do."
Meanwhile, the state Department of Natural Resources is deciding whether to charge a snowmobiler who admitted killing 57 ducks Jan. 13 in Fond du Lac County.
In another case this month involving animals and snowmobiles, three men in Waupaca County have been charged with using snowmobiles to deliberately hurt and kill five deer.
