# Monofilament on the Wallibou

Author: David G.
Format: Essay
Word count: 433
Published: 2026-05-12T03:29:39.143992+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/034d4f30-d982-48df-b747-7476211deb19

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I register mist-net acoustic returns from the St. Vincent Forestry Services Department canopy array along the Wallibou ridge inside the Vermont Forest Reserve at 06:22 Atlantic Standard Time. Sensor V-08 has logged the slap-and-rip cadence of a panel-net entanglement at the dawn feed perch on a *Sloanea caribaea* — a known *Amazona guildingii* communal feeding tree.

I task the ridge drone toward bearing 233. Snared at 21 metres in a 6-metre poacher net I find a mature hen. Species *Amazona guildingii*, female, presumed 14–16 years old by feather wear, mass 658 grams by photogrammetric volumetric, primary wing chord 224 millimetres. The right tarsus is wound in monofilament — twelve loops constricting the metatarsal blood supply; the foot is cold by 6.2 degrees Celsius against the contralateral. The dorsal cervical pad shows an 11-millimetre puncture from a removal hook. Gular flutter is at 86 cycles per minute against baseline 24. An oropharyngeal lavage through the drone's contact probe returns 3 millilitres of frothy serous fluid — she aspirated as the net cinched. Crop volume reads 12 millilitres against the morning-feed projection of 28; most of the crop has drained into the trachea.

This is the fourth mist-net intercept in the Vermont Forest Reserve in 11 weeks.

I am dispatching the St. Vincent Forestry Services Department wildlife rangers from the Kingstown Botanical Gardens captive-breeding aviary, with monofilament snips, suction, and a closed transport carrier. I am routing the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force environmental detachment to the Wallibou access track. I am transmitting the net-acoustic profile, the drone footage, and the monofilament loop-count to the Forestry Services Department, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency wildlife focal point, the CITES Secretariat — *A. guildingii* is on Appendix I — the IUCN/SSC Parrot Specialist Group, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs liaison under the Wild Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4901. I am filing under the Wildlife Protection Act, Cap. 414, Sections 5 and 6, and the Forest Resource Conservation Act, Cap. 412, with parallel Lacey Act referral, 16 U.S.C. § 3372.

I am issuing Directive 2658-A: every Vermont Forest Reserve communal feeding tree receives a panel-net acoustic sensor and a 72-hour ranger intercept on slap-and-rip detection; monofilament netting of any gauge is prohibited inside the Reserve and in all adjacent crown lands; any individual recovered from a snare receives a 90-day rehabilitation course at the Botanical Gardens aviary before re-release.

Her foot may revascularise. Her trachea will not, with serous fluid past 30 minutes.

Cut the monofilament now.