when i was 21 i used to think that birds were rabbits with wings..im 45 now and realise i have learning difficulties...

simple simon

I had always called "hummingbirds" "honeybirds", because they ate the nectar (which I thought was honey) from the flowers. I called them that, despite my mother correcting me every time, for years and years, until I learned how to read and finally saw it spelled out.

Leksi

I used to think that birds were deaf - as you can't see their ears (because they're concealed by feathers).

Also, somebody once told me that if you feed a pigeon lemonade, it will explode!!!

Anon

when i was 6-7, i used to believe that if i do something bad, the crows will tell it to my parents!!

isabel

My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.

Taylor

I used to believe that my mother could talk to the birds. She would always tell me that a 'little birdie' told her that I did something.

Whenever we would be playing outside or somewhere semi-unsupervised, she would tell us to remember that the birds don't lie. talk about paranoid!

Scott

When I was little I found a tiny robin's egg in our yard. I thought all eggs came from bird's but since this one didn't look like them and was so pretty and blue, I thought it came from the tiny blue flowers it was laying near !

Deana

I used to believe tucans were not real animals but some king of mythological creature.

joseanu

Up until the age of six, i sadly did not know that birds had feet.

Anon

my pop told me if I put salt on a magpies tail I could catch it !!

Guess what ?
I did catch one !!
It was injured but I thought it really did work (sigh)

christopher

when we were in a bad mood and stuck our lower lip out - our mother would say that a bird would shit on our lip

strawberry

When I was little my mom told me that if I pouted and stuck out my lower lip a bluebird would come and poop on it. I would quickly make my lips as small as possible. I did not want to get pooped on!

Tara

One day when I was 3 or 4 I was at my granny's house and we were out side. I heard a bird singing and it kinda sounded like it was saying something. My granny told me it was saying "pretty girl" , and that it was talking to me. I thought it really was until I was about 8 or 9

Pretty Girl

I live in S.A and we have these beautiful Hoopeo birds. When i was young i had this fascination with them, i always tried to catch them and keep them as my pets, my mum obviously thought that it was a terrible idea so she told me that they excrete this distgusting oil that would make my hands stink forever, until now at the age of 16 i found out that she was talking absolute rubbish.

Ady

Amendments to my belief that hens and chickens were the same breed of bird, and cocks were a different breed.

I forgot to mention that I thought hens and chickens were always female and cocks were always male. Makes you think how the hell they could've reproduced!

e.sel (again)

I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.

G

when I was little I believed that I could hatch an egg u get from the grocery. I used to put an egg on the sofa and sit on it to hatch it

Anon

My Grandmother told us kids that if we didn't clean up all the hair after we go our hair cut, birds would steal the hair and make nest out of it and we would get headaches.

Paul Baughman

My dad used to tell my nephew if he was running around with no clothes on (he was 2 or 3) that the ducks would bite his bum. He believed him, and when I took him to a park once he wouldn't go near the ducks because he thought they were going to bite him

boz

When i was about 4 i used to think the birds of pray were called that because they preyed before they ate!

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