When I was around 6 or 7, my Grandmother told me that a friend of hers had been stung by a hummingbird and almost died. It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I found out that hummingbirds don't sting!

Anon

When I was a kid I used to believe that we can catch a sea gull throwing salt at its tail. So i always carried some salt when going to the beach in case I saw one.

Lucy

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP MY PARENTS WOULD NOT LET US HAVE ANY ANIMALS SO ONE DAY I WAS WATCHING ROMPER ROOM AND THEY WERE HACTHING EGGS IN AN INCABATOR SO I GOT AN EGG FROM THE REFRIDGERATOR AND SAT ON THE EGG SO I COULD HAVE A LITTLE CHICKEN AND OF COURSE IT DIDNT WORK SO I SAT ON ANOTHER ONE, NEEDLESS TO SAY I NEVER HAD A PET TILL ON MY OWN LOL

ROE

I used to believe that if a wild bird got into the house it meant that a relative or a close friend had died and that a telegram would soon arrive telling of the death.

Isolde

one time i was at a dock and there were ducks in the water pecking at eachothers heads and i yelled "look mom there eating each other!" then my mom told me they were having sex

Me

A VERY long time ago, I decided to do a fun little project. i believed that if chickens could sit on eggs for a long time and make them hatch, maybe I could do the same. I took an egg out of the fridge and put it in a basket. Then after i did so, i sat on the egg. after what seemed like a long time, i got up to see if it was beginning to hatch, then sat down again... maybe a little too hard. oops!
imagine my moms shock when she saw the yoke on my good pants... ;-)

Eggpants

I used to believe that the direction geese were flying is where I had to go


I am seriously weird! ; )

Lola***Rose

I used to believe that birds subsisted on bread.

C.C.

Whwn I was about 6 I used to think that if a crow bit you you would fall asleep for 100 years!

Lisa

everytime my brother and i went fishing an dlost the fish on the pole we would hear a bird. I would always tell him that the bird was laughing at him because he lost his fish. I still tell him that everytime he looses a fish.

laughing birds

since where i lived, there were a lot of little sparrows and pigeons, i used to think that the sparrows were pigeon babies.

Alissa

Let me share with you a method for distinguishing a male pigeon from a female one...
First you catch such a bird and take their beak between your thumb and forefinger. (Please, be kind!) If your victim tries hard to escape, you've got a female...
...or that's what my father and his fellows practised when they were kids.

Hristina

Once I saw a swan in a park, and my dad pointed it out to me. However, I was convinced that it was a big white duck, and so my parents tried to tell me that it was actully a swan, using a nature book. I wouldn't listen to them, and whenever they got the nature book out, I would turn the page to the "big white duck".

Anon

when i was younger i had pidgeons living in my roof,my mum told me that they would come in at night and steal my eyes and replace them with new ones fron then till the pidgeons left i set out traps that i would always fall into

robert.d

When I was little, I remember being told that birds fly south for the winter. Up until about 3rd grade I thought they flew ALL THE WAY south- to Antarctica. I wondered why they've leave Indiana in the fall to go somewhere even colder.

Jamie

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 roadrunners were about 4 feet tall (Thanks Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote!). The we went to visit my Grandmother in Arizona when I was about 7 or 8 and was quite suprised to see a real roadrunner!

Shiloh Butterfield

every one told me i was a silly goose as a child but i never really got it but every time they said it i would imagine a goose staggering around like he was drunk

nightmare also known as Nightmare

i thought that if you knocked an egg a chicken would come out

johny too-good

I used to believe that a crow is a female of a raven

Hrvoje, Croatia