KRM Branch, 27 November 2022 The November outing was to Lake Claremont, where Nick Cook from the Friends of Lake Claremont group joined our group of 10 attendees for a walk around the lake. It was great to have Nick along as we learned about the restoration projects undertaken by ...
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Northern Suburbs Branch 21 December 2022 As usual, there was no speaker at the December Meeting of the Northern Suburbs Branch. Instead, the Annual General Meeting was held in between a Christmas-themed Quiz and our End-of-Year Photo Competition. Office Bearers for 2023 are: During his, This Month Naturally segment, Don ...
Read more →DRBNats 9 December 2022 Ask people what their favourite Australian bird is, and many will answer “the maggie”, the Australian Magpie. Indeed, even those who profess no interest in birds can almost always name this one. But for all their ubiquitous popularity, there’s a lot we don’t know about them, ...
Read more →Main Club 4 November 2022 Dr Boyd Wykes started his career early, as a child, banding birds. During his studies, he did a PhD on the Helmeted Honeyeater, then had a career as an ornithologist, which brought him to WA. In retirement, he indulged his passion for birds by investigating ...
Read more →KRM Branch 23 October 2022 Only a small group of seven members met at the ticket kiosk for our trip over to Penguin Island, with the grey overcast sky and the threat of showers possibly keeping others away. KRMB traditionally schedules a visit to Penguin Island each year in early ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 26 October 2022 GOLLY walk Fourteen members and visitors joined us on a bright sunny morning for our Kulbardi Walk through a lesser-visited part of Bold Park behind the Bold Park Aquatic Centre. The Kulbardi Walk is part of the Whadjuk Trail Network that links remnant bushland ...
Read more →KRM Branch 17 October 2022 The October General Meeting saw guest speaker Tammy Goad, who stepped in when the scheduled speaker was called away to do a survey and deliver a PowerPoint presentation on Reptiles. Tammy works within the Native Species Breeding Program as part of the Perth Zoo Science ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 19 October 2022 Our theme for the year, Anything Marine, finally got back on track in October when we were privileged to have Monique Barker and Talitha Wolfe from Save Our Marine Life come along to talk about marine parks in general and the proposed review and expansion of the ...
Read more →DRB Nats 21 -23 October 2022 This intergenerational weekend offered the 19 participants a variety of opportunities to see the Dryandra woodland featuring the largest remnant of native vegetation in the western Wheatbelt. It’s a valuable and diverse conservation area. Well-signed walking trails guided us through magnificent open eucalypt woodland. The tall, white-barked wandoo and the mallet trees are impressive. ...
Read more →Main Club, 2 September 2022 Dr Ana Sequeira spoke to us about the movements of megafauna in Shark Bay, known as Gathaaguda, by the traditional owners, the Malgana people. Ana moved to Western Australia from Portugal to do a PhD on Whale Sharks. Through that work, she developed a global ...
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