I used to think that hummingbirds had to flap their wings to keep their heart beating. So, I would run around the yard and make sure that they didn't land, so they didn't die.

Kate

As a kid I had heard that if you feed birds uncooked rice or alka seltzer they would explode. I thought it meant they would explode like a bomb with fire and shrapnel.

Jon W.

When I was little I loved the Pocahontas movie, and I used to sing in my backyard the colors of the wind song. However, whenever I did, If I heard a bird make a noise or the wind blow, I thought that I was being spoken to. I would get all excited and think the birds were actually trying to communicate with me. "Mommy, the birds are speaking to me!!"

Lauren

In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!

Jamsie

I used to go snipe hunting - a joke played on me by older siblings. I was always told that if I were blindfolded and held out a paper bag and made funny noises, the snipe would come jump in my bag. I never caught a snipe, but I did catch a lot of rocks, and consequently -chuckles, that way. FYI, a snipe is a small brown bird... I saw one in the zoo once.

Isabelle

when i was 6 i used to believe that birds were magical creatures and used magic to fly

Serriu

I used to think that turkeys were male chickens. Don't know why, but I did.

Felicia

In preschool there was a girl named Robin and I throughout the whole year I thought she was the Bird Queen because of her name.

DJ

One day in class, we had gotten very off-topic, as we often did in this class, and we arrived at the topic of chickens. The teacher raised chickens for the eggs, to sell and eat, and it happened that he had an incubator full of eggs in the classroom.

One boy asked if any of them were roosters. The teacher responded by rhetorically asking how he'd know, before the eggs were hatched. Then, one girl, looking confused, asked why a rooster would come out of a chicken egg in the first place! Another girl sitting next to her whispered something to her, and she said... "Ohhhhh, I get it..." and turned bright red...

By the way, how old did you imagine these kids were? And what sort of class did you imagine them in? No, not elementary school -- this was 10th-grade physics class. Really.

Anon

until the age of 6 i didnt know bird had feet.

Anon

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 a kid I used to believe that sparrows were actually pigeons' children... I was convinced that was true because they are always together and I never saw a baby pigeon or a ''big sparrow''.

Jelena

I used to believe that chickens reproduced A sexually and that roosters were just handicapped chickens.

Teena Strang

Up until I was arount 15 I always thought the red bit on a seguls beak was ketchup from the fish and chips people had been feeding them

adam's

i used to belive ( cause dad told me ) that if i catch a shagg (sea bird) and pull its tail it will sing the ABC. i spent 3 hours running up and down the beach trying to get a shag

Anon

When my Grandmother saw a bird in the garden, she'd say "oh look, there's a dickie-bird". For years, I didn't know there were different types of bird, I just thought they were all dickie-birds.

Jay

My Aunt used to tell me that if I didn't share, I would turn into a crow.

Peter

I used to believe that a female bird would lay an egg and the male would come by, sit on the egg and fertilize it.

Kevin Zweifel

I believed keeping a mini chocolate egg under a pillow overnight would create a chocolate chick for a few weeks.

Joshua Rowe

Since you would plant flower seeds to get flowers,I used to believe that planting bird seed would produce-birds!

Keith