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Authorities prosecute the largest raptor poaching case in known Calif. history

A Northern California man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to killing more than 150 protected birds and other wildlife. Authorities are calling it the largest raptor poaching case in California history.

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California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers began investigating Parker last March after receiving a tip by someone who saw a man kill a hawk near Standish, a rural Lassen County town about 135 miles northeast of Sacramento. When they searched Parker’s property, officers found 159 dead animals, most of them red-tailed hawks but also two bobcats, a taxidermied mountain lion…