Taxus baccata is native to northern Europe. You may therefore not be surprised to discover that some birds there can and will eat the seeds.
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Backyard and Beyond 
Now do op-boppa-buzzards!
Great sequence. I heard one of them the other day and caught a quick glimpse. Pretty strange to have them here in January! But I suppose we’ll see more and more of this type of out of range overwintering as climate change keeps rambling along unchecked.
Birds eat all sorts of poisonous(to humans) things. Pokeweed berries and poison ivy fruits come to mind. Is the cone of this Yew poisonous to birds or just humans? Could the aril be harvested and consumed by humans? Gingko has to be processed before it is consumed, so this is nothing new.