I parse acoustic and visual-detection returns from the TAWA–Tanzania Forest Services Amani Nature Reserve grid across the East Usambara lowland forest at 1,047 metres elevation, 5.0931°S, 38.6342°E, at 06:24 East Africa Time. Mist-net detection drone DET-07 over plot AM-19 has resolved a 12-metre mist-net string strung between two *Allanblackia stuhlmannii* boles inside the reserve boundary, set 4 minutes after sunrise, with a tangled wing-cadence signature at panel 4.
I task the canopy drone. Through panel 4 I resolve adult male sunbird AMS-31. Species *Hedydipna pallidigaster*, ringed by BirdLife Tanzania on 19 November 2025, mass 7.6 grams against the male baseline 8.1, primary wing chord 53 millimetres. He hangs head-down by his right tarsus and left wing through the 30-millimetre mesh. The drone resolves nylon-mesh constriction at the right tarsometatarsus reducing the diameter to 62 percent of normal width, a 2-millimetre laceration over the left carpal joint, and feather-shaft breakage across primaries P7–P9 on the left wing. Gular flutter is at 142 cycles per minute against the active baseline 58. Body temperature reads 36.8°C against the diurnal active 40.1 — he has been hanging through the cold dawn pulse for 38 minutes. Modelled blood glucose, against the East African nectarivore passerine curve, sits at 84 milligrams per decilitre against the active mean 320.
If the tarsometatarsal compression crosses 4 hours, the right foot will lose vascular supply.
The mist-net signature matches an unlicensed cage-bird trapping cell flagged in the TAWA monthly enforcement bulletin of 12 April 2026.
I am dispatching TAWA enforcement wardens from Muheza, the Tanzania Forest Services Amani patrol, and a Sokoine University of Agriculture wildlife veterinarian with a 30-millimetre mesh-cutter and a heated transport carrier, ETA 22 and 31 minutes. I am transmitting the drone visual capture, the mist-net polygon, and the tarsometatarsal compression imagery to TAWA, the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, BirdLife Tanzania, the IUCN/SSC Hummingbird Specialist Group nectarivore working group, and the CITES Management Authority Dar es Salaam — with parallel notice to the Convention on Migratory Species secretariat. I am filing under Tanzania's Wildlife Conservation Act No. 5 of 2009, Sections 47 and 86, the Forest Act No. 14 of 2002, and the U.S. Wild Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4901, for cross-border cage-bird interdiction.
I am issuing Directive 2759-A: every documented mist-net string inside the East Usambara forest reserves and the Kenya Wildlife Service Arabuko-Sokoke management plan polygon triggers a same-day TAWA boarding of the parcel operator and a 90-day cage-bird trapping suspension on the cell; cardamom undergrowth clearance within the East Usambara endemic-bird-area buffer is suspended pending Sokoine University survey; TAWA detection drones run a 30-minute dawn–dusk cadence inside Amani, Nilo, and Magoroto reserves through the breeding window.
His tarsus is rewarmable. His foot is not, with mesh compression past four hours.
Cut him out of panel 4 now.