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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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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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Day one of my fifth Wilderness First Responder recertification. Glad I brought coffee, but things are off to a good start!
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#GenAI will never be able to replace your ability to take your years of experience, knowledge, critical thinking and meaning-making, and turn them into something that is uniquely yours. That is the power of the process of #writing.

#writers #ChatGPT #NoAI
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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1. Great, let's do this

2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators

3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Regarding deadlines and form submission: Rights holders have until March 23, 2026 to submit a claim. Look on the Works Lookup Page for your titles If you have published works under different names, be sure to search each of those names Illustrators are now included as part of the settlement and should submit a claim if their work is on the Works Lookup page.
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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If you weren't at last Friday's Sip & Dissect #owl pellet class at Experiment in #Portland, you missed out. We had a great time picking through these little bundles of #bones and crud, and we unearthed so many tiny treasures! Look at these absolutely minuscule vole phalanges (and bonus rib) I found!
A group of people of assorted appearances sitting at wooden tables. All of them are focused on small piles of dark debris and bones on paper plates, picking them apart with scalpels and tweezers. A paper plate with several small clumps of dark debris, and a small pile of bones on one end. the plate is on a light brown wooden table, and there is a scalpel, a blue plastic pair of tweezers, and a paper chart of rodent bones around the plate. A close-up of a scalpel blade with several very small bones resting on it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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So on my way to the KC area for my last book signing, I passed through the one and only #Tightwad, #Missouri. I figured I would just giggle a little about actually having driven through it--but then I saw this. Of course I had to stop for photographic evidence! #silly #humor #funny #places
A photo of a large sign on a post that says Tight Wad Bank. the clock below says 00. It is against a partly cloudy sky. A photo of a brown brick building with a porch with white posts in the front. A gray Subaru Outback is parked in the lot in front. the sky overhead is partly cloudy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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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 🌿
A large brown owl with yellow eyes and two feathery ear tufts stares down at the viewer through a veil of green leaves and tree branches as the sun peeks through with bits of blue sky.
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!
Graphic with a picture book cover of THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT, Written by Katie Slivensky and Illustrated by Hannah Salyer. Text reads, "Need a picture book for a canine-lover this holiday season? THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT is both wolf and dog approved!" There are two photos, one of wolves being read the book by a staff member at Wolf Hollow in Ipswich, MA. One of a dog being read the book inside the home of friend Jason Jong. Text goes on to say "Named a Best Book of the Year by the NYPL and Bank Street College of Education". Text also states, "Available anywhere books are sold! For signed copies, order in advance through Porter Square Books or The Silver Unicorn Bookstore".
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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
A tree with drooping branches and silvery green leaves leans over a nearly-obscured trail on a grassy slope. A section of grassy ground where the grass has been pulled away from part of it, leaving dry ground soil exposed. A long, winding section of trail on the grassy slope, with the silvery green trees further back from the trail and sunbeams peeking through from the left.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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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!
a photo of a Native American man in a dark suit and pale shirt with a colorful beaded necklace stands at a podium before a light colored curtain with purple lights, with a mixed audience of people on the floor in front of the stage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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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 🌿
A pale left hand holds open a small red covered sketch book with a colored pencil drawing of conifer trees in a meadow with purple and yellow flowers. Next to it sits a tiny flat pack of twelve miniscule colored pencils. A close up of the drawing from the previous picture. A drawing of the head of a rainbow trout with green on top, silver on the underside, red patches on the gill covers, and dark spots on all the green parts. A close up of the sketchbook and colored pencils from the first picture.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Walk amid #dinosaurs and more with me at the Sternberg #Museum of #NaturalHistory in this short video: youtu.be/n3XCrtlTZuM?... #pteranodon #plesiosaurs #Cretaceous #PrehistoricAnimals #Paleoart #Kansas
Walking Amid Dinosaurs and More at the Sternberg Museum!
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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 🌿
A small wall made of yellow limestone, with a gray stone carving of a man in an old fashioned suit standing on top. The front has a weathered bronze plaque. The wall is flanked by small, scrubby green trees and dried grass. A close up of the plaque which explains this is the original Boot Hill cemetery, so named because many were buried here with their boots still on. Below the explanation is a list of some of the names of people interred here. A photo of the wall in the distance, across a large area of closely cropped brown grass. A view inside a plastic grocery bag showing bits of garbage.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
A white woman with long light brown hair and glasses, wearing a maroon shirt and white skirt with flowers, black tights, and brown boots. She stands in front of a fireplace surrounded by comfy chairs and bookshelves, and she holds a book called The Everyday Naturalist.
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 💙📚 💡📚
Four books arranged in an arc on a light colored rug. The books are copies of The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go by Rebecca Lexa. The cover is dark blue with light green and white text, and the cover's border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms.
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 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 💙📚 💡📚
Four books arranged in an arc on a light colored rug. The books are copies of The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go by Rebecca Lexa. The cover is dark blue with light green and white text, and the cover's border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms.
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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?
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October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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
An image of a piece of ground that is a patchwork of green grass and dark brown mud. There are little bits of white and blue plastic all over. More plastic fragments mixed in with organic material in a large white bucket. A few tiny, hair-thin colorful filaments of plastic mixed into a patch of grass on the ground. The same patch of ground as before, but with less plastic and a few more bare patches of mud.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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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. 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
Two white bookshelves on a raised platform and adorned with green houseplants. The shelves feature a book with a dark cover surrounded by colorfully drawn animals, plants, and fungi, called The Everyday Naturalist. A city street can be seen through the window behind the shelves. A white door with a variety of signatures and dates written on it in black marker.
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Drawing of a Raven

Graphite pencils on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature
Drawing of a Raven made with graphite pencils on paper.
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