LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A southeast Nebraska man has been given probation and fined $2,000 for killing dozens of snow geese after hours without a permit. 19-year-old Nyle Bartling, of Syracuse, pleaded guilty to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Lincoln. Bartling won’t be allowed to hunt for the next two years, while on probation. The U.S. attorney’s office says Bartling shot 86 snow geese after legal hunting hours in March 2011 at a private pond in Otoe County. Another man, Connor Marcoe, is also charged. Bartling says they were trespassing and left the birds when the property owner heard the shots and authorities arrived. Marcoe is to enter a plea in June.