52 People Are Sharing the Obvious Things They Didn’t Realize Were True Until They Were Older

Like this person, for a long time, I always assumed that birds were mostly vegetarian. Oh, I knew about eagles and vultures and that sort of thing, but I assumed that most cute little birds, like sparrows and ducks and chickens, ate seeds and grain and bread, because that’s what humans feed them and that’s usually what we see them eating in cartoons.

But that is not the case! Most birds will eat pretty much anything they can get their beaks on, and depending on where they live and how big they are, that can be everything from insects to sea creatures to lizards to mammals to, yes, even other birds.