The club is very pleased to announce that the book it supported this year, Wally’s way home by Neeve Blackham-Jennings, has won the Whitley Young Author Award from the Royal Zoological Society of NSW. Congratulations to our budding author and illustrator! If you don’t already have a copy, it would ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
KRM Branch 24 October 2021 The October field outing was to Yanchep National Park and a small group met near the Visitor’s Centre on a beautiful warm morning. We were pleased to have Jolanda join us on our walk and she reminded us that it was the Great Southern Bio-Blitz ...
Read more →KRM Branch 18 October 2021 For our October general meeting, we were pleased to welcome guest speaker Laura Fagan from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. The topic of Laura’s talk and presentation was an introduction to the MyPestGuide App plus details of how it is used to ...
Read more →NS Branch 18 September 2021 Who would have thought thar be so many dragons in WA? Today’s St George, aka Dr Paul Doughty, has forgone his horse and lance for a four-wheel drive and a camera to track and tame his prey. Paul began his presentation by explaining our Australian ...
Read more →Main Club 5 November 2021 Our speaker was Dr Amanda Ridley, from the Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the University of WA. Mandy has been conducting behavioural ecology research for the last 22 years, studying Babblers in the Middle East and in the Kalahari, before setting up a Western Magpie ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 25–26 September 2021 The September field outing was a long weekend stay at a property near Lake Clifton. While it was not native bushland, it still had plenty of mature Tuarts and other trees that provided nice habitat for birds and other fauna. A total of ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 22nd September 2021 We started the morning with a short walk to the lookout located on the highest point in Trigonometric Park in Duncraig. This is the second highest point in the City of Joondalup, the highest being the top of Blue Mountain Park, which we visited ...
Read more →PARTICIPANTS OBSERVATIONS Main Club, 10–13th September 2021 On Friday, 10th September, eight members and one visitor met for an afternoon walk in Christmas Rock nature reserve just north of the caravan park. This reserve contains a rich diversity of flora typical of the laterite soil of the region. Luckily, Jonica ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 20th September 2021 Our September general meeting had the central theme of wildflowers, with members invited to share photos of flora (and other subjects of interest). The first presenter was Chris Punter who showed a series of photographs taken on a recent trip to the Exmouth ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 18th August 2021 Dr Anna Hopkins, Senior Lecturer in the Molecular Ecology and Evolution Group at ECU’s Joondalup Campus, provided our very well attended meeting with an insight into her current research into understanding the link between mycorrhizal fungi and ecosystems. Anna began by describing the many ...
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