KRM Branch 25 Oct 2020 A good turn out of 11 members attended the October field excursion to the Spectacles Nature Reserve, Kwinana. The Spectacles is a 360ha reserve that is part of the Beeliar Regional Park system. Consisting of Banksia woodland and a central wetland fringed with Freshwater Paperbarks ...
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NSBranch Nov 2020 GOLLY, we do have a big crowd today! With 25 participants our walk at Warwick Bushland attracted the largest crowd for the year. We commenced the walk with a brief introduction to the bush from Steph Murphy, coordinator of the Friends of Warwick Bushland, who acknowledged the ...
Read more →Nick Cook, Coordinator of Friends of Lake Claremont, led a group of 16 people (11 members and 5 visitors) around Lake Claremont. While we walked, Nick talked to us about the ecology and natural history of the area and the story of the amazing rehabilitation that has been achieved there. ...
Read more →The theme for this meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was a new member, Malcolm Roberts, who showed a slide show featuring some photographs of a trip to Karijini NP, on which he was a guide. The photographs highlighted the spectacular scenery to be found in the many ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch November 2020 Our speaker, Dr Kenny Travouillon, has been the Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum since 2015. Having studied the 10 to 24 million year old fossil remains of bandicoots found at Riversleigh, Queensland for his PhD, it was only natural for him to take ...
Read more →Main Club November 2020 Our speaker was Anthony Santoro, a PhD candidate at Murdoch University. For his Honours studies on the Oblong Turtle, Chelodina oblonga, Anthony surveyed thirty-five wetlands in the South West, involving about 1500 turtles. These turtles (we previously called them tortoises, but have adopted the American nomenclature) ...
Read more →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 ...
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