Gaia Giovangrandi - Home sweet home...

Nombre y apellidos: Gaia Giovangrandi

País: Italia 

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Título de la obra: Home sweet home…

Especie o elemento: Chaffinch

Categoría: Ilustración naturalista

Técnicas utilizadas: watercolour

Inteligencia artificial: No.

Tamaño: 25,3×31,2 cm

Año de creación: 2025

Descripción: The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is the most common species among finches and in Italy it's easy to spot. It's a robust and adaptable bird, for this reason we can find it in several enviroments: hardwood and coniferous woods, urban parks, tree-lined countryside, gardens, vegetable gardens and orchards.
The Chaffinch exhibits a remarkable sexual dimorphism: the male has bright colours, while the female has a less conspicuous coloration thanks to which she can blend in best with vegetation, expecially during the hatching.
In spring the male sings a beautiful courtship song and, once he find his partner, he indicates to her the place where to built a nest. The female assembles various kind of materials like moss, lichen, barks, hairs and feathers, trying to camouflage the nest with the tree on which it is built.
In this illustration I've painted the couple of chaffinches and their nest on a plum tree.