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!!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil