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At 3:00 a.m. during the roar of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Marisel López-Flores, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) project leader for the Puerto Rican parrot recovery program, received a text from an employee: “Tell my kids I love them.” The staffer was one of two who had stayed—as someone always does during storms—with the captive parrots in El Yunque