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In 1955, fascinated by the ingenious pigeon hunting with wooden paddles and nets, Orson Welles directed the documentary The Land of the Basques. Today, from a mountain hut on the border between Navarre and France, Gerardo Damboriena, a veteran pigeon hunter, reveals to us in basque the secrets of this more than 700-year-old tradition, now on the verge of extinction.
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00:04El Gariño
00:05El Gariño
00:05El Gariño
00:06El Gariño
00:12Se ha llevado varias veces en Sevilla y arriba,
00:17tiene hasta la cara que no se le hagan.
00:20Se ha ido a un센to y una vez,
00:25se ha ido bien.
00:2920 bajatzen txela, oztik, así ziren.
00:45Zerbaitu horrela contatzen dute.
00:48Mino, deusimoduz, aspaldiko kontrua da, eh.
00:59Karandik! Karandik! Sharpa! Karandik!
01:06Ola, horrego!
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