Northern Suburbs Branch 16 August 2023 Our speaker on the 16th of August was Dr Liz Kington, the coordinator of the WA Malleefowl Recovery Group. While Dr Kington may have drawn a smaller crowd than the Matildas on the same night, those who did attend were treated to a very ...
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YOUNG NATURALISTS with MAiN Club – 6 August 2023 The weather was ideal for this year’s beach sweep, but unfortunately, only two families turned up! There were piles of sea wrack on the beach – mainly seagrass – but the variety of finds was a little disappointing, and some things ...
Read more →A total of 13 members/past members met at the Palm Beach Café on the Rockingham Foreshore to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the founding of the KRM Branch. We were blessed with a beautiful sunny morning and were thrilled to see a few Australasian Gannets gliding overhead the end of ...
Read more →The July meeting was a members’ night with three members delivering presentations. Pauline Dilley discussed her recent cruise in the Kimberley region, backed up with photographs. Daniel Heald showed a series of images of species sighted during the June weekend invertebrate survey at the Field Station on Cooleenup Island in ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch GOLLY WALK – 26 July 2023 Golly, how lucky were we? The weather Gods smiled at us. The rain stopped five minutes before we were due to set off at 8 am, and two hours later, only a few minutes after settling in for our coffees at ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 19 July2023 Our presentation in July featured photos taken during the Notley Post-Easter Excursion to the Walpole Wilderness. One of the most interesting discoveries during our mini-bioblitz was the discovery of a single specimen of Wilsmore’s False Triumphant Pill Woodlouse (Pseudolaureola wilsmorei). Image by Em Lamond · ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 19 July 2023 Wilsmore’s False Triumphant Pill Woodlouse was named Cubaris wilsmorei when first described in 1926 and published in 1927 in a paper by University of Western Australia researchers G.E. Nicholls and Helena M. Barnes*. image by Em Lamond – iNaturalist Australia ala.org.au This minute creature ...
Read more →Our speaker was Darren Hamley, a multi-award-winning science teacher, environmentalist and wildlife rehabilitator. Darren teaches science to children in the Gifted and Talented Program at Willetton Senior High School, where he can give them some exciting extension work. He has them doing “proper” research – that is, starting with the ...
Read more →KRM Branch Field Outing, 25 June 2023 The June field excursion was to Paganoni Reserve, and a great turnout of 22 members and visitors met at the car park for fungi walk. It was great to see so many people interested in fungi, especially the young children excited at the ...
Read more →NS Branch Golly Walk, 28 June 2023 A four-degree morning didn’t stop eight members and a visitor gathering on the slope overlooking the southern end of Lake Joondalup and the Beenyup Channel for our guided tour by Woodvale Friends of Beenyup Channel convenor Bryan Saunders. Steam was still rising from ...
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