Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦

Pennsylvanian. Birder. 🦅 Historian of knowledge, liberalism, capitalism, environment, and ideas. Writing the history of the Verein für Sozialpolitik.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@rosswolfe Lack of Mortal Kombat Triology is saddening.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@profwitch I'm a Leafs fan but I want one of those hats so bad. But they're sold out on the website. 😭

[Troy Beck @troybeck]

Pirates have offered Juan Soto $15 million over 750 years

[Old Man Perez @IolaElla]

Great point by @_TimBarker

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@Econ_Marshall Looks more like a cooper's hawk.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

The eBird update happened. The Hoary Redpoll is dead. Long live the Redpoll (Hoary)!

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

We need to return to the days of bird-themed propaganda.

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

In today’s think-piece, primary editors Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba discuss the influence of Leszek Kołakowski on Tony Judt’s interpretation of the Cold War.

https://t.co/osbvOcxaok

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@said_mitch This is my president:

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

This cover goes pretty hard.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

Starting a crusade to rename the Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pennsylvanica) as the Pennsylvania Warbler.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@daniel_dsj2110 The other day on the subway, overheard 2 students talking about how they have some AI-program that "humanizes" ChatGPT essays. The one said he started using it after a previous instructor asked him what a word in his paper meant and he didn't know.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

The sagas of patch birding: yesterday morning my local pair of crows beat up the neighborhood female Cooper's hawk. Today they stole the Merlin's breakfast robin. Then a Herring Gull forced them to drop the remains into the middle of the children's Easter egg hunt.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

Sad news from the Pittsburgh Hays' eagle nest today:

[KDKA @KDKA]

SAD UPDATE: There will be no eaglets at the Hays nest this spring after the couple's single egg broke sometime overnight. https://t.co/KjGntlBKaq

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@blogTO @TRCA_HQ Mixing cautionary warnings with words like "astonishing", "once-in-a-lifetime shots", etc is completely ridiculous. This article is pure exploitation of the nest and nature for clicks.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@blogTO This is extremely irresponsible of @blogTO. Every outlet that has covered the nest, @TRCA_HQ, and the birding community have been stressing that the nest needs to be left alone. Publicizing some random photographers' pics is just going to encourage others to seek out the nest.

[Steven McClellan 🕊🦉🐦 @stevelmcclellan]

@DaleBarbour Ugh. Terrible. Was looking forward to visiting during the long, spring migration birding days on the islands.

[alexandra @birdmotives]

new from me today, my first for @Slate!

the story of the London planetree—the most widespread tree in NYC—ties together threads of European settlement, biodiversity collapse, and Robert Moses to create food deserts for native wildlife.

https://t.co/7mgybFzD0E

[FLAP Canada @FLAPCanada]

It’s official, Spring Migration has started.

This unlucky American Woodcock collided with a building in Downtown Toronto a few days ago, and is the first collision of the season. Thankfully, a member of the public was able to take action ... (more below)