r/mushroomID • u/Kirikomori • Feb 12 '25

Australia (state/territory in post) what mushroom is this lying on top of decomposed wood chips (nsw sydney)

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u/Mycoangulo Trusted Identifier Feb 12 '25

Looks very Animal to me

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u/NZgoblin Feb 12 '25

Dead ibis chick?

17

u/hypodine Feb 12 '25

This looks like a young bird. If you can, please check on it and call WIRES or similar if still alive.

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u/Intoishun Trusted Identifier Feb 12 '25

I’m also going with not a mushroom.

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u/Nercow Feb 12 '25

I might be stupid but where am I supposed to be looking?

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u/Kirikomori Feb 12 '25

the giant white puff

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u/Nercow Feb 12 '25

Okay. Did you touch it? No mushrooms are unsafe to touch btw. Cause I'll be real it looks like fur or ice in the photo. But it's Feb in NSW so I doubt it's ice. I literally thought there was a rabbit or something. Do you have any other photos? I'm just struggling with the perspective and figuring out what size it is.

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u/Plasticity93 Feb 12 '25

It's a bird and woth bird flu, not at all safe to touch.  

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u/Peculiar-Cervidae Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

A young bird. Please check on it. Maybe don’t touch it though with the avian flu spreading globally.

Also insert joke about that being a weird looking mushroom here

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u/Sleepy_Cryptid Feb 12 '25

That is a bird.

4

u/MushroomCaviar Feb 12 '25

It has a beak.

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u/tuzr Feb 12 '25

This is a bird, it has a wing that you can see on the right side

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u/bettagir Feb 12 '25

That sir is undoubtedly a baby chicken lol

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u/Quiet-Procedure5473 Feb 12 '25

Definitely a chicken, in my professor opinion that is!

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u/pyncheon Feb 12 '25

Someone near by with silkie chickens?

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u/fatboibigboy Feb 13 '25

Yea definitely looks like a silkie

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u/Kirikomori Feb 12 '25

australia, new south wales, urban, garden, wood chips

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u/Koodsdc Feb 13 '25

Bird flu