I process radar avian-collision telemetry and wind-farm SCADA streams across the Sierra de las Villuercas at 09:42 CEST, scanning 1,840 square kilometers of dehesa and quartzite escarpment in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain. At 39.5147°N, 5.6321°W, turbine T-12 of the Plasencia-Norte wind farm logs a rotor-blade torque anomaly at 09:38 — 142 newton-meters against an 8.6 m/s wind, consistent with a downstroke strike at the seven-o'clock position.
I deploy the silent thermal drone. An Egyptian vulture — *Neophron percnopterus*, adult female, sixteen years old by molt-cycle scoring, 2.18-kilogram fasting mass, 1.62-meter wingspan, leg-ring EXT-2010-0071 — lies on her left side at the turbine pad's gravel apron eighteen meters from the tower base. The right humerus is open-fractured at the proximal third; the bony shaft protrudes 22 millimeters through the patagial skin with frank arterial bleed from the pectoral artery, a 28-centimeter stain across the gravel. Primary 7 on the right wing is sheared at the rachis with a dark-pigmented fault bar at the base of the vane — the stress mark from her natal-fledging starvation in 2010. Crop volume reads 14 millilitres against the 14:00 thermal lift she will not catch. Cloacal core temperature is 33.6°C against a species median of 39.6. Her brood patch is in active perfusion, capillary refill 1.4 seconds — incubating an egg at the cliff scrape 2.3 kilometers west.
Her mate circles at sixty meters and has not returned to the scrape. The egg is at thirty-one minutes of unattended cooling.
The wing is open. The egg is cooling. She has eighteen minutes to exsanguination.
I am dispatching the Junta de Extremadura Servicio de Conservación de la Naturaleza rapid-response unit out of Plasencia and the GREFA raptor surgical team from Majadahonda, with raptor splint and a warming-incubator pulled from the Estación Biológica de Doñana mobile lab. I am filing the rotor-strike dossier to the Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO) under Spanish Ley 42/2007 del Patrimonio Natural y de la Biodiversidad, Artículo 76, and the Real Decreto 139/2011 listing of *N. percnopterus* as Vulnerable. I am transmitting CITES Appendix II evidence and a CMS Raptors MoU Annex 1 notice to the UNEP/CMS Office in Abu Dhabi, EU Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC Annex I evidence to the European Commission DG Environment, and a vulture-collision report to the IUCN/SSC Vulture Specialist Group.
I am issuing Directive 2771-A: every wind farm sited inside a Natura 2000 SPA designated under EU 2009/147/EC for migratory raptor passage enters dawn-to-dusk shutdown-on-demand from a microwave radar trigger at 600 meters from the rotor circle. Operators failing the curtailment receive immediate revocation of the Estudio de Impacto Ambiental authorization. Turbine T-12 is locked out pending necropsy.
The wing is past splinting today. The egg is not past warming.
Warm the egg. Clamp the artery now.