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you know these birds-storks?and the way they stand-on one leg in the lakes?
so...i was verry surprised to find out that storks have TWO legs!
nuka
i used to believe that birds were spies and that they would evesdrop on my conversation and tell it to their bird friends. I also believed that sparrows could speak human and tell us other peoples secrets. So for the first 7 years of my life, i would only whisper.
I think that this is all my dads fault. I got in trouble and asked him how he knew. He replied that a little bird told him. Of course, i didnt think taht it was my older sister who ratted on me so i figured that a sparrow saw me do it and told my dad.
poisen
When I was young (about 3-4 years old) I believed that owls lived in keyholes. Therefore, I would not go too close to a keyhole, unless there was a key in it, which would prevent the owls from coming out and attacking me. Fortunately, after a while my parents bought me a somewhat lifesize toy owl, which made me realize that owls were too big to live in keyholes.
Brian
When i was 8 my dad convinced me that boneless chickens were raised on a farm, youde have to kick them to move em around, and they were fed through a tube
When I was little, a family friend showed us her chooks. She said that she thought they were girls, but turned out to be boys. I misunderstood and thought that chickens were magical creatures that could change their gender whenever they wanted.
Flicky
At the school I first attended, there was an enormous privet hedge with several big gaps in it, presumably where the branches hadn't been able to grow or where the hedge had been damaged by a football.
At the age of about five or six, I discovered one of these gaps. Sticking my head inside, I saw little piles of grass (cuttings that had fallen off the lawnmower?), lots of twigs, and some vaguely cup-shaped leaves filled with rainwater.
My conclusion?
IT WAS A HOTEL FOR BIRDS.
It all seemed very simple. The leaf "cups" were for the birds to drink from. The twigs and grass were their "beds" (nests), but they'd got horribly messed up, which was why there weren't any birds staying there now.
I spent the next couple of months tidying up the "hotel", making neat little nests to lodge amongst the branches. When the birds still didn't come, I wasn't discouraged-- I figured they'd go to hotels when everyone else did, that is, in the school holidays!
silverstar1809
I used to believe there was a bird called a 'bird' that looked exactly like a crow and only adults could tell the difference.
When i was about 4 i used to think the birds of pray were called that because they preyed before they ate!
Alien 5247
i always thought swallows were dirty because they live in mud nests.so whenever i saw a swallow i said
''take a bath!''
peter,california
I used to believe that larks were very large birds, because, whenever I heard of someone doing something "on a lark", I thought it meant they actually rode on larks to do something, so larks must have been large enough for someone to ride.
Renee
I used to believe that ducks grew up to be swans. I think this has to do with the fact that there is a pond near-by with ducks and swans on it. And also the tale of the "Ugly Duckling" where the duckling did actually become a swan.
Rob
I used to beleive that birds were animals with high intelligence and that they'll rule the world and wipe out man kind as we know it!!!!!.........they didnt
birds are unintelligent
When I was a kid I used to think that woodpeckers were actually eating the wood when they were pecking it.
Amy
When I was small, I didn't know that ducks paddled their feet to swim. I thought they ran into the water and the momentun carried them across the the lake or pond. I always wandered what would happen if they ran out of momentum and got stuck in the middle of the water.
since where i lived, there were a lot of little sparrows and pigeons, i used to think that the sparrows were pigeon babies.
Alissa
I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse.
Not a farm kid
haha! there was a time when i was younger when i turned around to my mum and said: "if there is a brown bird, does it mean they are from pakistan?" my mum told me when i was older and i feel so ashamed...
g e e !!
When my granddaughter was in my truck with me, I pointed out a Roadrunner to her. She said, "Hurry! Roll the window down! I want to hear him say beep beep!"
Texas granny
When I was little, I believed that the chicks were still alive in the eggs you bought at the grocery store. I recently learned what an incubator was and how it works, so I thought that maybe the microwave would work as one, so I put an egg inside a bowl and started the microwave. I waited for my chick to appear until.....POP!! the egg exploded...
jamie
There is a room in the museum here full of stuffed birds and drawers containing eggs, nests, droppings, etc. I had a nightmare after visiting the museum that the drawer full of worms and the one full of nests was the same, and birds' nests were actually made of worms. I was thereafter afraid of touching nests for fear that the worms would be agitated and wiggle away, leaving the birds homeless.
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