A veterinarian by training and currently director of the French Office for Biodiversity in the Centre-Val de Loire, Jean-Noël Rieffel, 40, perceives the beauty of the world and the precarious fragility of living things through birds.
“Birds are the union between heaven and earth
,” he says.
He publishes
Praise of passing birds,
Editions des Equateurs.
LE FIGARO.
- How did your passion for birds come about?
Jean-Noel Rieffel.
-
From an early age, I brought the birds into me.
This passion was provoked as much by decisive encounters (uncles, friends, naturalists), readings (
Jonathan Livingston the seagull
,
Le Merveilleux Voyage de Nils Holgersson
, André Theuriet, Paul Géroudet…) as by the first sightings of mythical birds.
Such as the bullfinch and its purple color;
the kingfisher, that ray of emerald and fire level with the water;
the bearded vulture, this bone breaker;
the dipper, this “water blackbird” which swims at the bottom of rivers;
the osprey…
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