I’ve been flying all types of radio-controlled aircraft for decades. I’ve had two encounters with birds. In both cases it was while flying thermals with glide

I’ve been flying all types of radio-controlled aircraft for decades. I’ve had two encounters with birds. In both cases it was while flying thermals with gliders. In both cases the birds went for the tail section. The first was a hawk. I was going up a thermal on my own. The hawk came into the same thermal and decided it wanted to own it. It flew incredibly fast towards my plane and grabbed it from the latter quarter of the fuselage. This was a strong and fast kevlar/carbon fiber F5B competition class motorized glider, 2.4 meter wingspan. The hawk could not destroy it but sure did with it as it wished for a few seconds. When it let go I went to full throttle and climbed straight up like a rocket (high power/weight ratio) to get away. After that I landed safely without damage. The second case was a raven. Similar situation. It went for the tail and ripped it right off. All I could do was watch it crash. They own the skies.