Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist

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.

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.

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 💙📚 💡📚

I am too fatigued to go hunting down more memes (thank you for this one) but they gotta be getting good given how unhinged with fatigue everyone is at this point

Current record for longest World Series game was 2018, Dodgers won in the bottom of the 18th. If this inning goes like the last eleventeen, they're gonna break a record no one was excited about breaking.

I KNOW RIGHT? Loved the comment last inning about the well-bearded Dodger pitcher: "he was clean-shaven when the game began"

YouTube video by Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist How Did the Flint Hills Save Themselves?

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...

Thank you!

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.

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

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.

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. 🌿 💙📚 💡📚

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.

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

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 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.

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 🌿

Drawing of a Raven made with graphite pencils on paper.

Drawing of a Raven

Graphite pencils on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature

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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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/...

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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 🌿💙📚

YouTube video by Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist Konza Prairie Biodiversity

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 🌿

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.

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 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.

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 🌿 💙📚

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

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 📚💙

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

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 💚 📚💙

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

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.

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 🌿

Thank you!

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 🌿 💙📚

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.

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!