i used to believe that the reproduction of chicken was the same as fish. i just pictured that cocks fertilised after hens laid eggs. however, my boss said it wasn't true.

amy

I used to believe that if you pick up a bird feather that you would get arrested by the police. My sister told me this when i picked up a feather in my yard and i have believed it since.

Cyndel

before i could read and write, my mother ingrained in me that the droppings of birds were called 'bird spit' rather than the 1 letter difference of which at the time i had no knowledge. for a long time, i thought that bird droppings were universally known as spit even though it had nothing to do with saliva, just as a baby goat was called a kid, even though it wasn't human.

skh

I totally freaked out when my mother first showed me a peacock. Apparantly I confused the Dutch word of peacock 'paauw' with the imitation of a firing gun: pauw!

My mother has never seen me that scared ever since.

Martijn

I used to believe that Ducks couldn't fly and that it was just in cartoons that they made them be able to fly for the fun of shooting them and making it seem funny!

Linda

I used to believe that when crows and/or ravens were flying overhead you could, if you closed your eyes and concentred, transfer your body and mind into the birds, and when you re-opened your eyes you could see the world as they saw it, while soaring above and looking down. I think I actually did that!!!

Lizette

I used to believe that when my daddy went to a turkey shoot that he actually shot at live turkeys! He kept asking me to go with him and try shooting one of his rifles but I wouldn't because I didn't want to kill a bird! When I was about 10, I finally went with him and was surprised to find out that he shot at targets...not live turkeys. I took a shot with his 22 and actually won a turkey, ok a gift certificate to get a turkey at the local grocery store.

Chickie

when i was rather young i knew that birds didn't fly just by moving their wings rapidly up and down but that they moved them in a certain way. i figured that if i could somehow master how they did it, then i would be able to fly too!

Opal

I had a dream about some geese coming into my bedroom and hissing etc at me. In the morning I was really scared and my mum told me that it was alrighy-dad had taken them back to the lake on his way to work! I believed her for yrears afterwards!

Lucy, UK

when my brother was about three, he told my parents that our neighbor was growing chickens in her garden because that is where she buried the heads of the chickens when she killed them

sandy

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 was always told that if you feed pigeons bicarbonate of soda the would explode...And I've never done it (just in case)

Looopeeelisa

me and my friend used to argue about stupid things all the time, but the one i remember most was that i was sure a duck wasnt a bird, and she tried to convince me it was, but I wouldnt beleive her. A duck was a duck as far as i was concernd

amanda

I used to think all birds pooped on people that were being bad because a bird pooped on my dad one day and my mom said he has been bad latly

Joe

I thought that hens and chickens were the same thing and that cocks were a different breed of bird! I was very surprised to learn that cocks and hens were simply male and female chickens when I was 10

e.sel

I used to believe that all brown ducks were female, and green and grey ducks were male. I was told this when I was younger, and did not know that they were 2 different species. Stoopid me. And evil parents for making me believe this!!

Mike

I used to believe that sparrows were baby pigeons

greenpolyester

I used to believe that birds lived in their nests all the time, it came as a surprise when my mom pointed out this fallacy to me well into adulthood, "What! You mean birds just stand around in the trees all night?" Kinda creeps me out now.

Lorenzo

i used to believe that when a chickens fertalised eggs, (like had sex) that the hen would lay the egg, then the rooster would sit on it. and then it would be fertalised

anon

Growing up in northern California I used to believe an Earthquake was a bird like a huge woodpecker that would land on the outside of your house and shake it. During an earthquake I would ask to go outside and see it.

Paul