Northern Suburbs Branch, 27 August 2025 Our best turnout for the year. Seventeen members and visitors attended our walk led by Dr Mark Brundrett, one of the founding members of the Friends of Warwick Bushland more than 20 years ago. Mark chose the recently revamped Jarrah Trail, one of several ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Darling Range Branch, 20 September 2025 It was a beautiful day, and the creek was fully flowing when an intrepid group of 17 bird watchers on the DRB Nats excursion set off around the Upper Lesmurdie Brook Loop trail. They were guided by two long-standing members of the DRB Nats, ...
Read more →Main Club, 5 September 2025 The Main Club’s meeting at the Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre on September 5th, 2025, Keep Carnaby’s Flying – Ngoolarks Forever, was presented by Professor Kris Warren from the School of Veterinary Medicine at Murdoch University, who has worked in the field of wildlife, zoological, and ...
Read more →Australia’s first marine park co-designed with Traditional Owners has been finalised – marking a huge achievement by the Bardi and Jawi Traditional Owners, working with the WA government. The Kimberley – Like Nowhere Else and its 17,000 passionate supporters helped get this ground-breaking marine park over the line by sending ...
Read more →This photo was taken in the 1950s and shows Harry Butler (left) pointing at a kangaroo paw. But who is the man on the right? Our history committee would love to find out. If you know, please contact the office at info@wanaturalists.org.au or 9228 2495.
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 July 2025 Golly, we were lucky! Just a light sprinkle of rain as we neared the car park – and they had forecast thunderstorms. Lake Gnangara is the most southerly of the Wanneroo wetlands. The surrounding terrain consists of low dunes and undulating sand plains of the Bassendean ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 16 July 2025 NSB member Don Poynton presented a travelogue with a difference, which he aptly subtitled Some things I learnt while travelling from Perth to Alice Springs via the Gibson Desert with Coates Wildlife Tours. His presentation was part narrative, part quiz, part audience contribution, with ...
Read more →Main Club, 1 August 2025 The jewel-coloured flash of a dragonfly over a Perth wetland represents far more than a fleeting moment of natural beauty. These ancient aerial hunters are indicators of ecosystem health, and recent research from Murdoch University by Assoc. Prof. Belinda Robson and her colleagues reveal both ...
Read more →Main Club, 4 July 2025 Kelly Sheldrick shares fascinating discoveries from her ongoing research into WA’s microbat communities. Kelly Sheldrick’s recent presentation on Southwest bat research opened many eyes to the remarkable diversity and conservation challenges facing our local microbat populations. Speaking to our naturalist group in July, Sheldrick outlined ...
Read more →NSB June Meeting: Highlights of the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp Members Gia Clarke, Arlene Quinn, Sylvia Tetlow and Don Poynton illustrated their personal highlights from the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp which featured the Wellington Forest and Collie area. The fifteen members who attended stayed in Wellington Forest Cottages, ...
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