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LEVEL A2

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Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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These birds are flying to Italy from the north of Europe.

In winter, the weather's warm in Italy.

Eva Osuna is a tourist from Spain.

The bird 'dances' are beautiful to watch.

But the birds, called starlings, bring problems.

Large groups of the birds sit in the trees.

Their poo falls on the city streets.

It smells bad too.

On nice, sunny days, you can see Romans with umbrellas.

Local people want to stay clean.

A group called Fauna Urbis has to move the birds.

They use noise and lights.

This divides the birds into small groups.

This noise isn't a problem for the birds.

It only tells them the place is dangerous.

They should fly away.

The work isn't easy.

There are about one million starlings in Rome this year.

People have different ideas about them.

Francesco Fusco lives there.

He understands.

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