  We consider the contour representation of the infinite volume Ising model at
low temperature. Fix a subset V of Z^d, and a (large) N such that calling
G_{N,V} the set of contours of length at least N intersecting V, there are in
average one contour in G_{N,V} under the infinite volume "plus" measure. We
find bounds on the total variation distance between the law of the contours of
lenght at least N intersecting V under the "plus" measure and a Poisson
process. The proof builds on the Chen-Stein method as presented by Arratia,
Goldstein and Gordon. The control of the correlations is obtained through the
loss-network space-time representation of contours due to Fernandez, Ferrari
and Garcia.
