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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist

@rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social

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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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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · Feb 26

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 🌿

A photograph of a book called The Everyday Naturalist resting on a green cloth. The book has a dark blue cover with an array of colorful plants, animals, and fungi framing the front cover.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about slime mold, with illustrations depicting two different types of slime mold growing on logs, one that looks like a huge, sprawling pretzel, and the other like swaths of brown hair.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about identifying animals by both visual and tactile textures, and a colorful illustration showing a pair of antlers, a salamander, and a horseshoe crab all wrapped in greenery.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about how to identify plants by size and shape, and with an illustration of the trunks of Sitka spruce and western hemlock trees.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 19h

Totally okay to RS this one; in fact, I encourage it! What I've written here has been bouncing around in my brain for some time now, and I think it may be helpful to others.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 19h

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 🌿

A stream of water trickles over a broad terrace of brown rock, bounded by green trees and other vibrant plants.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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 🌿

A large gray-brown owl with dark stripes on its feathers, big yellow eyes turned toward the viewer, two ear-like feather tufts on its head, and a black beak sits on a thick pine branch with a small furry mammal in its talons.

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 1d

Drawing of a Raven

Graphite pencils on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature

Drawing of a Raven made with graphite pencils on paper.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

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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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 1d

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/...

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Annie Irving @sconzani.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

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 🌿 💙📚 💡📚

A photo of a book with a dark blue cover bordered by a variety of color animals, plants, and fungi. The text is green; the title is The Everyday naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go and it is by Rebecca Lexa. It has a sticker on the front indicating it is a signed copy.

A white woman with light brown hair, glasses, and a clay-colored shirt sits at a faux wood table. She is looking up at someone off-camera and talking, while holding an open book in one hand and a pen in the other.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

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 🌿

A large brown spotted hyena snoozes contentedly in a patch of sunlight next to a pile of hay.

An African painted dog with patches of brown, white, and black and big round ears walks toward the camera.

A glass terrarium, upon which is impressed the bright white underside of a snoozing gecko.

A small yellow dart frog with black spots on a pile of leaf litter and moss.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

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!)

A white woman with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a gray shirt with herons and a darker gray calf length broomstick skirt. She stands in front of a table with books on it, reading from a sheet of paper.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 4d

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 🌿💙📚

A pale right hand supports a delicate plant with slender green stems, purple trumpet-shaped flowers, and deep green lance-shaped leaves.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 7d

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 🌿 💙📚

A photo of a line of dried grass and wildflowers, with a few green plants amid the sea of brown. Overhead the sky is blue with a variety of white clouds.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 9d

A most excellent #BookSigning at Francie & Finch in Lincoln, #Nebraska and then exploring Spring Creek #Prairie Audubon's #tallgrass trails before making it to Rolla, MO last night. More #book events soon, but for now rest (and email catchup!) #Bookstores #BookTour #TheEverydayNaturalist 🌿 💙📚

A stack of copies of the book The Everyday Naturalist by Rebecca Lexa, resting on a small, round, wooden table with an intricately carved top. One other copy of the book sits on a stand next to them, next to an informational flyer about a book signing featuring the book. Above is a white sign with blue lettering that says "Francie and Finch Bookshop"; the ampersand is nestled in the blue silhouette of a bird.

A long, dirt path trailing through a wide prairie full of tall grasses and dried wildflowers. Over the hills is a blue sky with stretched-out white clouds.

A view of a blue sky through the red-brown stalks of dried prairie grass. There is a line of green trees far in the distance.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 11d

Fabulous #BookSigning at The Story Collective in St. Joseph, #Missouri yesterday! (Only five signed copies left in store.) Now on to Francie & Finch in Lincoln, #Nebraska for a 3pm #BookEvent 📚💙

Five copies of a book called The Everyday Naturalist on a wooden shelf with other books and puzzles about nature. One copy is on a wooden stand, and the others are stacked next to it.

A view up into the canopy of a deciduous tree with yellow-tinted leaves and jagged-edged seed heads. A blue sky peeks through the leaves.

A low-growing plant with several green, heart shaped leaves, surrounded by dry brown leaf litter

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 12d

After #bookstore hopping around #Oklahoma City all day yesterday, I am headed to St. Joseph, #Missouri for today's 2pm #BookSigning at The Story Collective! Bonus #nature walk with local #naturalist Ann Marie Chappell afterwards 💚 📚💙

Two brown butterflies with orange and white spots on the wings rest on a grassy patch of ground

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

I always seem to be too early or too late for that one, but there are always other marvels to enjoy.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

A few treasures from #KonzaPrairie in east #Kansas #FlintHills today. My first monarch in 20+ years, my first sheepmoth, and my first speckled #kingsnake! #lepidoptera #insects #butterflies #moths #snakes #reptiles #herps #TallGrassPrairie #hiking #nature #wildlife #animals 🌿

An orange, black, and white butterfly on a cluster of tiny yellow flowers in the middle of a wide, grassy prairie with a blue sky overhead.

A very fuzzy and large black and white moth with rust colored accents resting with its wings folded on a piece of vegetation.

A long black snake with many tiny cream colored speckles on a gravel road. Its body curves side to side and its forked tongue is sticking out.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 16d

Oops, I forgot to add tags. If you like these things, check out what this is a reply to! It is, in fact, a very happy skeet! #Denver #Colorado #books #bookstores #BookSigning #authors #nature #NaturalHistory 🌿 💙📚

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 16d

Denver showed UP tonight!!! Tattered Cover sold out of more books than you see here, and has to order a bunch more that are already spoken for. Thank you, everyone--St. Joseph, MO is next on Oct. 11!

A group of people of various demographics sitting in a few rows of chairs in a bookstore. Many are holding the same book as the author, who stands smiling in the middle of them.

A stack of books with dark blue spines and green text that says The Everyday Naturalist, Lexa. They sit on a brown wooden table in a bookstore.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 16d

A few photos I took while driving through the #WasatchMountains from #SLC to #Denver yesterday. My book signing is at 6pm tonight at the Colfax Tattered Cover location! You can see all my #BookTour dates and locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #Utah #Colorado #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿 💙📚

A photo of two large rock hills next to each other, studded with scrubby bushes, with a blue sky and puffy white clouds overhead.

A landscape with scrubby bushes and trees, with a large brown outcropping of rock rising from the ground, and a blue sky overhead.

The sun shining brightly through a crevice in a dark stone cliffside. The sun's beams almost obscure a small waterfall trickling down the side of the rock. The sky is blue.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 17d

I have a birdwatching field class through Portland Community college every semester except winter. We went a couple weeks ago, and we got to see one of these guys, though not doing acrobatics. Great look at their gorgeous color scheme, though!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you! I love herons (green herons are my favorite 💚)

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 17d

#SaltLakeCity has an impressive #bookstore culture--and that's coming from someone who live in #Portland! Spent the past couple days exploring the #bookstores here, but today I drive to #Denver for my 10/07 6pm #BookSigning at the Colfax Tattered Cover. #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚

A picture of a Caucasian woman with light brown hair, a gray t-shirt with herons on it, and a gray skirt and brown purse with mushrooms, standing in front of a tall bookshelf full of books on nature. She holds a copy of a book called The Everyday Naturalist, and she is smiling happily.

A close-up photo of a book called The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go, written by Rebecca Lexa. It has a dark blue cover, green text, and the border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms. It sits on a bookshelf with its cover facing out, flanked by the spines of neighboring books.

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