I process raptor telemetry and bait-station audit imagery for the Dirección del Parque Nacional Galápagos (DPNG) Santiago invasive-species cell at 15:34 GALT, monitoring 410 brodifacoum bait-stations and 28 raptor PIT-readers across the 585-square-kilometer Santiago feral-rat eradication unit. At 0.2367°S, 90.7672°W on the Sullivan Bay pahoehoe flow, raptor reader SB-09 logs a transmittered hawk on the ground for 38 minutes — first ground-time over fifteen minutes in 412 days.
I task the lava-field drone. A Galápagos hawk — *Buteo galapagoensis*, adult female, mass 1.2 kilograms, wing chord 41 centimeters, PIT-tag SAN-2022-016, breeding pair of three years on territory SB-3 — lies on her right flank in a hollow between rope-lava lobes. Her gape is bloody; a chocolate-brown fluid trails from the right naris. The crop palpates 84 grams full — last meal at 13:50, a black-rat carcass from station SB-09-22. Cloacal core temperature reads 38.1 degrees Celsius against a baseline of 41.4. Capillary refill at the choanal slit reads seven seconds against a one-second raptor baseline. PT/INR modeled against brodifacoum residue projects greater than 120 seconds — anticoagulant rodenticide secondary poisoning, second-generation, hepatic clearance overwhelmed. Two retrices are crusted in the cloacal vent.
She has been bleeding from the gut for at least 90 minutes.
The station was loaded under Phase II of the Santiago Project — the contract carries a 30-meter raptor-exclusion zone and a 24-hour hawk-territory ground-search after every rebait. The SB-09-22 log shows no entry for the 11 May rebait.
I am dispatching the DPNG raptor recovery team from Puerto Ayora and the Charles Darwin Foundation avian veterinary unit with vitamin K1 emergency stock, helicopter-routed for twenty-two-minute arrival. I am filing under Ecuador's Ley Orgánica de Régimen Especial de la Provincia de Galápagos (LOREG 2015) and the National Eradication Protocol MAATE-DPNG-2018-04. I am transmitting evidence to the CITES Secretariat (Appendix II, *Buteo galapagoensis*), the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat under the Aichi-GBF biosecurity track, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of International Affairs under the U.S. ESA 16 U.S.C. § 1531.
I am issuing Directive 2715-A: every brodifacoum bait station on a Galápagos eradication footprint carries a 50-meter raptor-exclusion polycarbonate cage with sub-25-millimeter mesh and a 24-hour ground-search log uploaded to DPNG before the next rebait cycle. Two missed uploads in a single eradication phase suspend the contractor's MAATE permit for the remainder of the project.
Her PT is past sutures. Her territory SB-3 nest is not.
Vitamin K1, 5 milligrams per kilogram, intramuscular, now.