When I was smaller, about 5 or 6, I used to think that swans were ducks that had their neck streched by vandals late at night!!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that swans were mythical creatures like unicorns or a phoenix.
— amber - i belived that ducks would take over the worldAnon
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G
- I used to believe that dumplings were made from baby ducks. — Sarah
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon