Toroa

Local name: Perdiz, Pünon, Fëdü

Endemic to Chile

-  Photography: Hatch Life I

Nothoprocta perdicaria rests close to the earth, where warmth is shelter.

Known as perdiz, and as Fëdü in the Mapuche language, it carries care:  the male remains, holding the fragile weight of what is yet to be.

In quiescence,life flourishes.

Care is a patient's presence where time, body, and future meet.