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Birds have been found to have a taste for truffles – fungi fruiting bodies that were assumed to be eaten only by mammals. The discovery, in the Patagonian region of South America, suggests that birds ...

This a fungus – Cyathus olla – the field bird’s nest fungus. It is very small, the “nest” is only 1.5cm tall and 1cm in diameter. The “eggs” inside are the spore-bearing structures. When they are ...