AGM AND STATE CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 AT THE QUINTILIAN SCHOOL IN MT CLAREMONT We are seeking expressions of interest from any members who would like to volunteer to help run a club stall at this Conference. The exhibition will take place during lunch and afternoon tea and will be held ...
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Treasurer 2024-
Vice-President 2017-23
Councillor 2009-13, 2015-16
Hon. Secretary 2014
NS Branch Saturday, 26 Sept 2020 As it was our first attempt at a bio-blitz, the event must be considered a success with 56 people, including quite a few children, signing in. I know a few who attended forgot to sign, so the total was probably nearer 60. The Great ...
Read more →Pied Cormorant attempting to swallow a large fish. Image: Colin Prickett KRM Branch 26-29 Sept 2020 Our field outing for September was a long weekend stay at Yallingup, with 11 attendees. Our base was to be a house on a large block that we had rented for the weekend. As ...
Read more →18 Sept 2020 On Friday 18 September at 2pm in the afternoon, the weather was sunny and it appeared to be a beautiful afternoon. Eighteen people from the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club and the Wildflower Society of Western Australia were met by Jolanda at the Kukerin Caravan Park, where she ...
Read more →Presented at KRMB Meeting – 21 Sept 2020 The speaker for the September meeting was Colin Prickett who delivered a presentation on the results of the December 2019 Shorebird Count for the Peel-Yalgorup System (PYS) which forms Ramsar Site 482. The presentation was kindly provided by Sharon Meredith of the ...
Read more →30 YEARS OF BUSHWALKS IN OUR LAST WILDERNESS NS Branch September 2020 Mike Donaldson, geologist, photographer and publisher, has journeyed to the Kimberley so many times over the last 30 years that he has lost count. At least once every year he sets off with a small band of friends ...
Read more →OCTOBER 2020 Our speaker, Dr Leanda Mason of Curtin University, is, in her own words “Advocate for the Conservation of Non-charismatic Species”. She completed her PhD on the urban ecology of trapdoor spiders and their kin, to better understand how we might conserve them for future generations. Her thesis was ...
Read more →A six-acre property has been lovingly developed over the last 17 years by two WA Naturalists Club members and showcases a wide variety of Western Australian plants including many Hakeas, Eremophilas, Grevilleas, Darwinias, Acacias, Verticordias, and more. Priority 3 and 4 plants are included, many plants are named and planting dates recorded. ...
Read more →Author: Erica McAlister, Entomologist , Senior Curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum, LondonPublisher: CSIRO Publishing (sales in Australia and New Zealand)(book available in other countries from: Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London)Illustrated with colour photographs and high-resolution microscope imagesAwards: Winner of the Zoological Society of London Award ...
Read more →AUGUST 2020 – KRMB FIELD TRIP The August field outing was to Bindoon and the Chittering Valley and our hosts for the weekend were Rosalie and Geoff Barritt who moved into a bush block at Bindoon about a year ago. Eight members made the trip up on the Saturday morning ...
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