Activity 2
Look closely to find out
Inside the forest, we
are both dwarfs and giants… The
trees make us look like dwarves
but we are giants compared to the
grass.
Buzzard
The buzzard is one of our most widespread
birds of prey: It isn’t rare to see its shape
appear in the sky, circling slowly and lengthily, often
at high altitude.
Poplar Admiral
Some butterflies spend a great deal of their
adult lives in the treetops.
Black woodpecker
The hammering sound woodpeckers make is well-known.
Necrophagous
This completely black beetle feeds on all
sorts of waste products, like dead animals and excrement.
A field mouse at the entrance to its hole
Small mammals such as field mice are common
in the forest, but they spend most of their lives underground.
A red squirrel’s head ducks behind a
tree trunk
Timid, the squirrel hides behind trunks, but
often its curiosity is stronger than its fear.