My 7 year old nephew holds the opinion that the correct name for a pidgeon is a "city chicken".
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- When I was little I thought that Shakin' Stevens was Elvis' nephew— Ali
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy