Book project

Collorosso Goose – Branta ruficollis

The watercolor illustration you find here represents the flying Collorosso geese and is taken from a book project not yet published. The project was built on the story of a young friend of mine and tells the story of a young wild goose that together with a peacock and a domestic cat is the main protagonist.

The Collorosso goose is young and inexperienced and is in its first migration to distant lands: exactly the island of Cona, an Italian natural park where overwinter still some specimens of goose-necked from a region of the Arctic Russia.
She is amazed at the vision of those unknown lands on the edge of the lagoon and wants to immediately go to discover what lies near a grove nearby. So, disobeying orders of her companions, fly to the ends of a farm where he meets a “pavoneggiante” Peacock and…