I used to believe that humming birds didn't have feet. I felt really sorry for them, because I thought they were doomed to spend their entire lives hovering.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- Up until the age of six, i sadly did not know that birds had feet. Anon
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- When I was eight, I thought my dad could translate what the birds were saying. I have no idea why.Anon