Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
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I am a Master Naturalist, nonfic writer, nature educator, tour guide, and all-around nature nerd who spends too much time in front of screens. Author of "The Everyday Naturalist" (Ten Speed Press, June 2025). PNW. AuDHD. She/her. RebeccaLexa.com
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My sample paperback of #TheEverydayNaturalist arrived yesterday from Ten Speed Press! Check out the cover/interior art by Ricardo Macia Lalinde! Preorder signed copies at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #books #NaturalHistory #animals #plants #fungi #SlimeMolds #FungiFriends #Nature #wildlife #authors 🌿
Just a couple more spots left in tomorrow night's 21+ #owl pellet dissection class in #Portland! You can reserve your place at www.experimentpdx.com/event-detail... #Owls #VultureCulture #Oregon #PNW #nature #birds #raptors #science 🌿
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Need a gift for a dog lover? A prehistory fan? A kid who feels different? Consider THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT!

Available anywhere books are sold!

Or, order soon through @portersqbooks.bsky.social or @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social, note you want it signed, and I'll personalize it for your recipient!
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Helped with #TrailWork at #Pendleton Adventure #Trails on Saturday, last day of the #Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit! A really nice endcap to both the summit and my 5+ week book tour. Home now, decompressing and reminiscing. #hiking #volunteering #HopePunk #nature #EasternOregon
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Highlight of the Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit: former NPS director Charles Sams speaking about his work, how his indigenous (Cayuse, Walla Walla) roots have informed his decisions and values, and what gives him hope for the future ❤️ Really inspiring opportunity!
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A couple sketches during day 1 of the #Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit. Drawing helps my #ADHD brain stay focused! #nature #ColoredPencils #landscape #forest #fish #RainbowTrout 🌿
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Visited the original #BootHill in Hays, #Kansas. Picked up #litter while I was there. I invite you to take a few minutes to make some little corner of the world better, too. #graveyard #cemetery #WildWest #history #volunteering #kindness #LookForTheHelpers 🌿
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Delightfully cozy #BookSigning at Monarch #Books & Gifts in Overland Park, #Kansas! Thank you to everyone; it was a great last event for this #BookTour. #Bookstores #TheEverydayNaturalist #nature #authors 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Wanna join an online #nature #StudyGroup on The Everyday #Naturalist (and also maybe in-person in Portland, OR)? Want to get better at identifying #animals, #plants, and #fungi? Find out more at tinyurl.com/mpjfh2r6 #NaturalHistory #wildlife #books #BookClub #science 💙📚 💡📚
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wanna join an online #nature #StudyGroup on The Everyday #Naturalist (and also maybe in-person in Portland, OR)? Want to get better at identifying #animals, #plants, and #fungi? Find out more at tinyurl.com/mpjfh2r6 #NaturalHistory #wildlife #books #BookClub #science 💙📚 💡📚
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A brief video I made on how the #FlintHills of #Kansas saved their #TallGrassPrairie from being destroyed. #prairie #grasslands #ecology #colonization youtube.com/shorts/4T5Wp...
How Did the Flint Hills Save Themselves?
YouTube video by Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
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October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Spent 3 hours in the cold and rain today with Ozark Rivers Audubon picking up litter along the north end of the #Nature Center, including mulched-up fiber optic cable (!) We managed to mostly fill a good-sized dumpster! #volunteering #Missouri #Ozarks #environment #environmentalism #conservation
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Had another fabulous #BookSigning last night at Skylark Bookshop, Columbia, #Missouri! Great crowd with lots of excellent questions/observations. Plus I got to sign the door that all signing authors get to sign, which was REALLY cool. Skylark has a few signed #books leftover, too. 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
How can losing a natural place, a species, or an entire ecosystem cause ecological #trauma? Why is the American relationship with grief so unhealthy? I explain why it's okay to grieve for nature lost at rebeccalexa.com/its-okay-to-... #psychology #environment #nature #MentalHealth #ecopsychology 🌿
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Less than a month to go (Nov 14), and space is getting really limited for my 21+ #owl pellet #class at Experiment in SE #Portland! Register at www.experimentpdx.com/event-detail... today 🦉 #OwlPellets #Birds #VultureCulture #nature #AnimalBones #wildlife #owls 🌿
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Drawing of a Raven

Graphite pencils on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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WOW this was a HARD one. 12 frames, stacked and edited in photoshop and Kolar Autopano Giga. My laptop was NOT happy with it! Final version is 89x248 inchs.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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From today's walk around north Cardiff: the long-staying Garganey on Llanishen Reservoir &, from Roath Park Lake, 1 each of the many Little grebes, Cormorants & Teal. #BirdingWales
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Well, #StLouis, your crowd was at least as big as Denver's! Great #BookSigning last night! Left Bank Books has a few signed copies remaining. Meanwhile, I head to Columbia #Missouri to Skylark Books on Thursday for a 6:30pm #book event. #books #authors #writing #nature 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Enjoyed a day at the #StLouis #Zoo before tonight's book signing at the Schlafly #Library at 6. Got to see some of my favorite #animals! #hyenas #PaintedDogs #gecko #DartFrogs #herps #amphibians #reptiles #feliformes #WildCanids #Zoos #WildAnimals #Missouri 🌿
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Yesterday's book signing at the Rolla Public Library was more than I could have hoped for! Today I head to St. Louis for my signing at the Schlafly Public Library at 6pm, and I'll be carrying the joyful glow from yesterday with me. (Thanks to Linda Frederick of Ozark Rivers Audubon for the photo!)
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just a reminder that my #BookSigning for The Everyday Naturalist at the #Rolla Public #Library in my hometown of Rolla, #Missouri is happening today (10/19) at 2pm. Tomorrow, the Schlafly Library in #StLouis at 6pm. #BookTour #nature #NaturalHistory #nonfiction #Ozarks #wildflowers #NativePlants 🌿💙📚
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lost heart over #videos after my phone died last spring with a lot of unshared content, but #KonzaPrairie inspired me to try again. Here's a very brief look at the #prairie #biodiversity from last week's #hike: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN48... #NativePlants #FlintHills #Kansas #TallGrassPrairie 🌿
Konza Prairie Biodiversity
YouTube video by Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
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October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I have upcoming #Missouri #BookSignings in Rolla, #StLouis, Columbia, and #KansasCity - dates/locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com (you can also order a signed #book there if you can't make it to an event!) RS OK #prairie #TallGrassPrairie #grassland #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM