Dec 12, 2025
Most Viewedare birds real
The short answer: mainstream science and birding communities treat birds as real, living animals; the “Birds Aren’t Real” idea is a satirical conspiracy movement that claims birds are government spy-d...
Peter McIndoe
Fact-Checks
2 resultsFeb 2, 2026
Birds Aren't Real: A satirical movement that claims birds are government surveillance drones, which has gained traction as a real theory.
Birds Aren’t Real began as deliberate satire in 2017 and markets an outlandish claim—that the exterminated real birds and replaced them with —to lampoon even as parts of the public treated it as liter...