The forest bird
Michel Munier is a fervent defender of the old forests of the Vosges. Since the 1970s, he has surveyed the massif in all weathers and had a decisive encounter with a rare bird, the capercaillie, whose habits are discreet and mysterious. Eight hundred nights of stalking to live moments of grace and beauty...
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As I turn the pages of my old notebooks, faithful companions of observations piled up in a box for fifty years, emotions and memories resurface. Notes, sketches, arrows and schedules follow one another. I dive back into the moments lived in the forest, in the heart of the night or the icy mornings, hidden under a fir tree, with an attentive ear, when I was writing blindly in the depths of my comforter. If all the animals of this world have enchanted my existence, one of them in particular has led me on a path of awakening to the intelligence of the forest: the capercaillie.
Michel Munier
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About sixty archival images and naturalist photographs by the author accompany the text.
Further information
| Photographer | Michel Munier, Vincent Munier |
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| Author (texts) | Michel Munier |
| Language | French |
| Number of pages | 256 pages |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Height | 21 cm |
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
| Editions | Kobalann |
| Year of release | 2022 |
| ISBN | 979-10-96728-02-2 |
