Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.

Mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff's fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile. Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the Earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally...

Disc 1 - Bird language basics: disc 2 - Bonus material and bird language groups.

Taylor Lockwood, the world's foremost photographer of mushrooms, presents a program on mushroom identification.

Picking mushrooms in the woods on a sunny day can be fun for the whole family . . . but only if you do it safely! There are thousands of different species of fungi, so it can be hard to tell which are edible and which are poisonous when you are picking them for yourself in the wild. Safe and unsafe species often closely resemble each other, and worrying about which mushrooms are safe and which might be deadly can take all the fun out of mushrooming....

"In order to understand the modern taxonomy of agarics and boleti, a thorough knowledge of microscopic features is an absolute requirement. This book is written with intent to provide the student of fleshy fungi with a source of information with which a thorough study of mushrooms can be achieved and species and genera of agarics and boleti can be identified." -from preface.