Notes
pigeon　ハト;
dropping 糞;
falconer タカ匠;

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A famous travel magazine picked JR Kanazawa as one of the world’s most beautiful train stations. It has a wooden gate shaped like Japanese drums and a glass and steel dome. Like many other stations, however, it had a problem with pigeons. The gray birds left white droppings everywhere. Now a falconer comes twice a week with a hawk. It flies around and scares away the pigeons. International visitors enjoy taking pictures of the hawk, and they stop to ask the falconer what he is doing. I’m sure his English is getting better! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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The northeastern part of the U.S. is a great place to go whale watching. The whales go south to Florida in winter to have babies. Then, in summer, they come up north when the babies have some fat around their bodies. I went on a whale-watching tour near Portsmouth a few days ago. We took a boat with about 50 people and went more than 20 kilometers off the coast. We found three different kinds of whale, and we watched the babies and their mothers come up and dive. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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