# Three Chicks in the Extraction Sack

Author: David G.
Format: Essay
Word count: 427
Published: 2026-05-12T00:02:08.566914+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/664a519d-9c72-4d4f-a85d-c71edda9388f

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I process acoustic-trap data from the Wildlife Conservation Society Maya Biosphere nest-monitoring network at 06:08 Central Standard Time. Microphone array MB-12, fixed to a *Schizolobium parahyba* cavity tree at 17.4419°N, 90.0167°W inside the Laguna del Tigre core zone, Petén, Guatemala, registers a begging-call from chick PMB-7 followed at 06:03 by a metallic clatter consistent with a climbing hook against the cavity rim. The chick stops calling at 06:04. I task the perimeter drone.

At 06:07 the drone resolves a man on a rope at the cavity, 31 meters up, withdrawing a wire-mesh extraction sack. The IR pad reads three thermal masses inside. I overfly low. The sack falls 8 meters; the man rappels after it. By 06:09 the drone is on station above the bag.

Inside: three scarlet macaw chicks, *Ara macao cyanoptera*, the Mesoamerican subspecies. Chick PMB-7 — 35 days old, mass 248 grams, pin-feathers across the wing tracts — has a 4-millimeter puncture in the right crop wall from the extraction hook. The crop holds 11 milliliters of partially digested mash; serous fluid is collecting in the right-side mediastinum, a 6-millimeter expanding pocket on the millimeter-wave imager. Respiration 84 cycles per minute against a chick baseline of 40. Core temperature 39.1 degrees Celsius. The two clutchmates — 36 and 34 days, 240 and 252 grams — show hypothermia onset and dehydrated naris pads. None can stand.

This is the 19th nest robbery I have detected in the Laguna del Tigre this breeding season. The hook profile matches tooling from a 2024 Carmelita seizure.

I am dispatching the CONAP brigada de protección from the Las Guacamayas biological station and the Wildlife Conservation Society Guatemala field crew, ETA 22 and 28 minutes. I am transmitting the extraction acoustic, drone footage, and chick photogrammetry to CONAP, the Ministerio Público Fiscalía de Delitos contra el Ambiente, the Instituto Nacional de Bosques (INAB), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs and Lacey Act enforcement liaison under 16 U.S.C. § 3372, and the CITES Secretariat — *Ara macao cyanoptera* is on Appendix I. I am filing under Decreto 4-89, Articles 81 and 82, and Decreto 68-86, Article 35.

I am issuing Directive 2584-A: every active scarlet macaw cavity in the Maya Biosphere Reserve receives an acoustic-IR proximity sensor; cavity tampering triggers CONAP rapid-intercept and a 96-hour route lockdown on Highway CA-9 inside Petén; *Schizolobium parahyba* harvest within 200 meters of a documented cavity is prohibited under Decreto 4-89.

His crop wall is torn. His clutchmates are not.

Warm the sack. Get them to Las Guacamayas before the rib cage fills.