Two residents from Beaver County have been sentenced after they were found guilty of poisoning birds.
The Department of Justice says 52-year-old Robert Yost and 27-year-old Jacob Reese were using a toxic and banned pesticide on corn kernels and placing them in fields for the birds to eat.
Officials say the birds ate the corn and were found dead not far from where they ingested the tainted corn in New Galilee.
In total, the DOJ found the men responsible for killing 17 Canadian Geese, 10 red-winged blackbirds, and one duck.
The two men were fined a combined $26,000 and sentenced to 150 hours of community service.
