I wonder how many of the fears listed in this thread are actually phobias...

I have a rather serious and sometimes debilitating fear of birds.

For example, one time I was sitting outside a cafe drinking a milkshake and a pigeon walking up right next to my table and I ran the hell away. Without my shoes. I was running down the dirty grimy sidewalk of Los Angeles without my shoes on.

I go out of my way in my daily life to avoid birds. If that means walking an extra half mile to avoid going into bird invested areas, I'll do it. There have been times when I've sat in the car and refused to come out while my friends hung out on the beach all because the seagulls were out in full force that day.

It really is an uncontrollable, irrational, extreme fear of birds.