I only knew of the smew because Alice had a picture of one and excitedly sent me an email about it a while ago :)
Alice is also the originator of the four letter birds list idea, I think. At least it happened while we were on a flight together and coming up with ideas for lists, and we made our initial list together. I think she was the one who thought of it but maybe I did.
P.S. I suspect I had heard of rails and skuas before, but I had no clear memory of them so I couldn't be sure. And it turns out I'd heard of the sora too, because Alice points out that she put it on the list we made on that flight.
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Alice is also the originator of the four letter birds list idea, I think. At least it happened while we were on a flight together and coming up with ideas for lists, and we made our initial list together. I think she was the one who thought of it but maybe I did.
P.S. I suspect I had heard of rails and skuas before, but I had no clear memory of them so I couldn't be sure. And it turns out I'd heard of the sora too, because Alice points out that she put it on the list we made on that flight.