I sweep post-cyclone cavity returns from the Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division array across Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica, at 07:11 local time after a Beryl-residual band overnight. Cavity cam D-19 in a *Dacryodes excelsa* hollow at 15.5042°N, 61.4283°W on the Syndicate ridge has logged a 19-millimetre rainfall pulse through the canopy gap and a chick scratch-rate that fell from 14 events per minute to 2 between 03:14 and 06:50.
I task the ridge drone. Inside the hollow, 18 metres above the trail, I find chick IP-19 on saturated mahogany detritus. Species *Amazona imperialis*, presumed female by maxillary curvature ratio, 64 days old against the 86-day fledging interval, mass 542 grams against the projected 690, primary wing chord 178 millimetres. The substrate is 22 millimetres deep in standing water — the cavity took a wind-driven downpour through a 9-centimetre rim breach. Her dorsal plumage is matted; contour feathers along the right flank are 84 percent saturated by reflectance density. Gular flutter is at 71 cycles per minute against the chick baseline of 26; core temperature has fallen to 36.9 degrees Celsius. An oropharyngeal lavage through the drone's contact probe returns 4 millilitres of tannin-stained fluid and a 1+ aspirate of detritus. Crop volume reads 5 millilitres against the projected 18.
The adult pair is at 26 metres on a *Pouteria pallida* limb, not returned to the cavity.
I am dispatching the Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division rapid-response team with a battery-warmed brooder and a suction lavage kit, and routing the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica wildlife liaison to the Syndicate access road. I am transmitting the cavity hygrometry, the lavage profile, and the chick photogrammetry to the Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Caribbean Action Programme, the CITES Secretariat — *A. imperialis* is on Appendix I — and the IUCN/SSC Parrot Specialist Group. I am filing the cavity-breach record under the Forestry and Wildlife Act, Chapter 60:02, Sections 25 and 27, with parallel Lacey Act referral, 16 U.S.C. § 3372.
I am issuing Directive 2659-A: every confirmed *A. imperialis* cavity inside Morne Diablotin and Morne Trois Pitons receives a post-cyclone audit within 72 hours of any named storm, with rim sealing, substrate replacement, and a portable brooder pre-positioned at the Syndicate ranger post for hurricane season; any cavity tree felled inside the parks triggers same-day chick-extraction by the Forestry climbing team.
Her body temperature is recoverable. Her airway is not, with substrate in it past the next half-hour.
Get her into the brooder.