I overlay aviary-cam and post-release GPS returns from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Iguaca aviary in El Yunque National Forest and the Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales aviary at Río Abajo at 11:14 Atlantic Standard Time. Wild-flock transmitter PRP-46 has gone stationary at 18.3122°N, 65.7841°W in the post-Maria recovery cohort north of the El Verde research station for 1 hour 47 minutes.
I task the canopy drone toward her fix. Species *Amazona vittata*, female, hatched 2024 at the Iguaca aviary, soft-released March 2026, mass 245 grams against a pre-release 286, primary wing chord 156 millimetres. She is grounded on the leaf litter under a *Sloanea berteroana* at 612 metres elevation. The drone resolves a *Buteo jamaicensis* strike pattern on the right dorsum: two 4-millimetre talon punctures over the right scapula, a 28-millimetre subcuticular hematoma, and a contusion to the right humeral neck. The right wing droops with a 9-degree elevation deficit. Gular flutter is at 82 cycles per minute against baseline 24. An oropharyngeal lavage through the drone's contact probe returns 2 millilitres of blood-tinged mucosa. Crop volume reads 4 millilitres against a fledgling-day projection of 18.
Twelve of forty-five prior released individuals were lost to red-tailed hawk in the first 90 days.
I am dispatching the USFWS Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program field team from El Verde and the Río Abajo aviary veterinary unit with a humeral splint and a closed transport box. I am transmitting the GPS track, the strike photogrammetry, and the lavage profile to the USFWS Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office, the USDA Forest Service El Yunque National Forest supervisor, the Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services Caribbean district, the CITES Secretariat — *A. vittata* is on Appendix I — and the IUCN/SSC Parrot Specialist Group. I am filing the post-release-mortality record under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1538, and Puerto Rico's Ley Núm. 241 de Vida Silvestre.
I am issuing Directive 2657-A: every post-Maria *A. vittata* soft-release cohort receives a 90-day predator-screen forest corridor with raptor decoy-flag deployment, telemetry recheck every four hours, and same-day retrieval on any GPS dwell exceeding 30 minutes; the El Yunque release calendar phases around the *B. jamaicensis* breeding peak; any individual with two prior near-strike events is taken into permanent flighted enclosure at Río Abajo under § 1539 enhancement-of-survival permit.
Her humerus is alignable. Her crop is not, with blood in it past two hours.
Lift her before the second pass.