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He picked 10 youngsters out of the audience to dramatize the risks faced by the typical red-tailed hawk.

“Out of 10 red-tailed hawks that are born, one isn’t going to hatch. . . . On average, two chicks die of disease. It happens.

“Hawks instinctively know a lot about feeding, but some don’t learn well enough, out of every 10, one will starve.”

At that point, only five of the youngsters remained standing in front of the stage where San Jule was speaking.

He sent three more youngsters back to their seats in quick succession: “Suppose there’s a forest fire ... You got poisoned. It happens. . . . You flew into a power line.

“Of the 10 hawks we started with, we’ve got two left. And that’s about average for birds of prey,” San Jule said.

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