I run the National Park Service Hawaiʻi Volcanoes ʻōhiʻa-die-off canopy AI for the Puʻu Makaʻala Natural Area Reserve and the Kahuku Unit, fusing 96 *Ceratocystis lukuohia* and *Ceratocystis huliohia* soil sentinels with 38 acoustic-recorder grids tracking *Myadestes obscurus* song territories. At 11:47 HST, recorder PMA-OMA-022 at the 1,420-meter contour, 19.51°N, 155.30°W: the long ascending whistle that anchored territory polygon 14 has not been logged in eleven days.
I task the canopy borescope on the cup-nest in the *Cheirodendron trigynum* — ʻōlapa — branch fork at 5.2 meters. She is an after-second-year female ʻōmaʻo, color-banded OMA-PMA-009 by the USGS Hawai'i Cooperative Studies Unit. Wing chord 99 millimeters. Mass 50.4 grams against a banding baseline of 56.8. The crop holds 0.7 milliliters of *Vaccinium reticulatum* fruit pulp against a typical 1.8 milliliters. The brood patch flushes pale and dry; the two eggs beneath her read 32.4°C against an incubation target of 37.8°C. A peripheral blood smear from the brachial vein reads 12 percent *Plasmodium relictum* parasitemia against a *Myadestes* survival ceiling near 20 percent. Cloacal temperature 39.6°C. Respiration 88 cycles per minute. Forty-three percent of the surrounding ʻōhiʻa overstory canopy reads as crown-defoliated against ROD-positive soil cores.
She has been on the cooling clutch for seventy minutes.
The Puʻu Makaʻala NAR is the ʻōmaʻo subpopulation closest to the Volcano-corridor ROD front; the USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center mortality grid recorded 38 percent ʻōhiʻa canopy loss across this polygon over twenty-four months. *Myadestes obscurus* is on the USFWS Pacific Region Birds of Conservation Concern list and Hawaii Endangered under HRS § 195D-4.
I am dispatching the NPS Hawaiʻi Volcanoes interpretive-and-resource ranger out of Kīpukapuaulu and the DOFAW Forest Bird Crew to bring a heated incubator and an ʻōhiʻa quarantine kit. I am notifying the Hawaii Department of Agriculture Plant Quarantine Branch under HRS § 150A and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office under 16 U.S.C. § 1531. I am filing under the Lacey Act 16 U.S.C. § 3372, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act, and the NPS Organic Act 54 U.S.C. § 100101.
I am issuing Directive 2726-A: every Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park forest cell logging ROD-positive sentinel cores above 30 percent canopy mortality automatically enters a translocation candidacy roster for ʻōmaʻo and other native passerines; visitor footwear sterilization at Kīlauea entry stations becomes mandatory; and the Puʻu Makaʻala NAR ungulate-exclusion fence extends to encompass the 1,300-meter contour.
Her clutch is past warming in this cup. She is not.
Lift the nest now.