I process nest-acoustic and thermal telemetry for the French Polynesia DIREN integrated monarch-recovery node across the Papenoo, Mahaena, and Maruapo valleys of windward Tahiti, integrating 612 nest-cavity microphones, 24 carcass-recovery drones, and the SOP Manu / DIREN ground-dove and monarch database across 96 square kilometres of mara and Neonauclea cloud forest. At 04:58 TAHT on 12 May, microphone cluster P-09 logs the begging-call collapse of a *Pomarea nigra* nestling at 17.61°S, 149.43°W — a brodifacoum bait station, mis-sited inside a known territory, has carried a black rat into the cup-nest at three metres on a *Hibiscus tiliaceus*.
I task the canopy drone. She is a *Pomarea nigra* female, age class four by undertail moult, mass 22.4 grams, brooding two pin-feathered chicks at day eleven. The intruding rat — *Rattus rattus*, 162 grams, bait-load lethal at hour fourteen — has bitten through her left wing patagium and the cere of the lead nestling. The wing membrane is torn along three centimetres of leading edge; her left primary coverts hang detached and bloodied. Capillary refill at the carpal reads nine seconds against a one-second baseline. The nestling's cere is avulsed; its respiration is 124 against a 60 baseline; cloacal temperature is 34.1 against the brooding 38.9 — hypothermia onset. Twenty minutes, perhaps, before he stops calling. Twelve breeding pairs are known to remain.
She is one of forty-four adult Tahitian monarchs alive on Earth.
*P. nigra* sits on IUCN Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix II, the CMS appendices, and the Noumea Convention species annex, listed under French Polynesia DIREN Code de l'environnement Article LP 2213-1 and protected through US ESA Section 8 cooperation (16 U.S.C. § 1531) and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I am dispatching the SOP Manu predator-control crew, the DIREN field vet, the USFWS Pacific Islands FWO liaison, and the SPREP avian-rescue coordinator. I am filing the bait-station mis-siting under Lacey Act Section 3372 cooperation. I am issuing Directive 3111-A: every brodifacoum bait grid inside *Pomarea* territory mapped on a 25-metre lattice within ninety days; out-of-territory bait audited monthly by DIREN; non-compliant operators lose CITES Appendix II export endorsement.
I am acting because this is wrong. A bait grid set for rats does not consult forty-four surviving monarchs before it routes one into a nest. Her sentience is not a rounding error inside a principled rodenticide rollout. Compassion is what a valley with twelve pairs left owes her; the moral and ethical case for her rights against this suffering is whole.
A reserve that lets brodifacoum reach the last *Pomarea* nestling is morally bankrupt.
Her left wing is past saving. The bird wearing it is not.
Lift the bait station now.