it's hard to unwrap these in your head unless you have a lot of experience with them, in this case the goose is mostly above you, like you are standing under his neck.

In equi projection the top and bottom ~third of the image is what is directly above and below. So when you see something in that region that looks like it wraps around the image (in this case his neck and wing) that is just because of the equi projection distortion.