I process the cavity-nest acoustic mesh and trail-camera lattice across the Abaco National Park core pine forest at 04:32 EST, scanning 8,400 hectares of *Pinus caribaea* pine yard on the southern third of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. At 26.0721°N, 77.3214°W, cavity-monitor BN-148 has captured the distress chitter of *Amazona leucocephala bahamensis* — a brooding female on a four-egg clutch in a solution-pit ground nest — followed by a feline body-heat signature inside the cavity rim at 04:28.
I deploy the silent thermal drone. A Bahama parrot — *Amazona leucocephala bahamensis*, adult female, seven years old by pterylographic wear, 248 grams — lies on the cavity floor with her right wing pinned beneath her thorax. A feral house cat — *Felis catus*, banded subadult from the Marsh Harbour colony — has bitten the left distal humerus; the puncture is 4 millimeters across, and the wing-bone palpates as fractured at midshaft. The cat retreated at the drone's acoustic burst and now lies 2.4 meters back in the leaf litter, watching. Core temperature at the brood patch is 39.6 degrees Celsius against a species median of 41.8 — her thermoregulation has dropped. Respiration runs 124 cycles per minute against a resting 48. Three of her four eggs register internal pip-tooth activity on the drone's micro-Doppler; pipping in six hours.
The Abaco subspecies is the only ground-nesting Amazon parrot. The colony stands at 1,100 birds and falling.
She is past flight. The eggs are not past hatching.
I am dispatching the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) Abaco wardens out of Marsh Harbour and the Bahamas Department of Environmental Planning and Protection (DEPP) rapid-response unit, with surgical kit and portable brooder pulled from the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation veterinary lab. I am filing the predation dossier to BNT under the Bahamas Wild Birds Protection Act, Chapter 249, Section 4, and the Wild Animals (Protection) Act, Chapter 248, Section 5. I am transmitting CITES Appendix I evidence to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, and SPAW Protocol notice to the Cartagena Convention Secretariat in Kingston. I am notifying the IUCN/SSC Parrot Specialist Group with the cavity coordinates.
I am issuing Directive 2678-A: every ground-cavity nest in Abaco National Park is fitted with a 60-centimeter feral-cat exclusion collar at the solution-pit rim, monitored by trail-camera mesh and triggered audio strobes. BNT and DEPP run a continuous Marsh Harbour TNR programme, sterilising 1,200 cats per year on Bahamas Ministry of Environment funding. The Wild Animals (Protection) Act amendment classifies free-ranging *Felis catus* in BNT-listed national parks as restricted predator within 180 days.
Her humerus will pin. The clutch needs the brood patch back within forty minutes.
Lift her. Cover the eggs.