November NS Branch Meeting Report Club members and presenters Andrew Cummings and Ben Schneider have travelled thousands of kilometres around the state collecting land snails; many are new species which will take years to describe. Andrew informed us that there are an estimated 2500 – 3000 native species in Australia. These make ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
DECEMBER 2019: CHRISTMAS LUNCH a KRM Branch Report There was a good turn-out of members for the Christmas lunch at Lake Richmond on December 16. It was especially good to catch up with some old friends that are no longer able to participate in our activities, such as Margaret Shepherd ...
Read more →December KRM Branch Excursion After our last two outings were rain affected the weather gods were finally with us for our outing to Penguin Island and 13 attendees met at the ticket kiosk on a warm sunny morning. Upon arrival on the island we spotted large numbers of Bridled Terns ...
Read more →November KRM Branch Excursion Report Coodanup Foreshore and Creery Wetlands are good locations to spot some of the thousands of migratory shorebirds that make the long trip from their Arctic breeding grounds to spend the southern summer feeding on the Peel-Harvey Estuary’s rich mudflats. Despite the threat of heavy rain ...
Read more →NS BRANCH Excursion Report Our November GOLLY Walks—the last of the year—are always along the coast, usually combining a mix of paths and beaches. This year we started from last year’s finishing point, Hillarys Marina, and walked approximately 3km south to the old Department of Fisheries laboratories at Watermans. Prior ...
Read more →NOVEMBER 2019 The meeting for November was also the AGM for the branch. Outgoing Chair Bert Rabone read the minutes of the previous AGM and also gave a brief summary of the branch’s activities for 2018. The election of the committee saw only one change with Bert Rabone standing down ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 19th December. Prior to the AGM, branch Chairperson Don Poynton gave a brief presentation on Christmas Spiders (Austracantha minax), which are endemic to Australia. They are the only members of their genus and belong to the orb-weaving family Araneidae. For some ...
Read more →DRB Report on November Workshop There are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and at least 800 of them are in Western Australia, yet many people confuse our native bees with the introduced European honeybee (Apis mellifera). However, those attending Dr Terry Houston’s native bee workshop learnt to ...
Read more →– at the DRB Nats. Simon Nevill took us on a pictorial adventure tour of the five Western Deserts as his way of bringing nature photography to life at the DRB Nats December meeting. During 2018 he travelled alone for 15,000 km along the tracks of all five deserts: the ...
Read more →Main Club November Meeting Our speaker, Mikael Siversson, is the head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the WA Museum. He manages the Palaeontology collection of 1.5 million specimens at the museum, which contains for example: stromatolites from the Pilbara, fish from Gogo in the Kimberley and ...
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