Main Club The weekend trip started on Friday afternoon when we travelled from Sunset Beach in Geraldton to the Chapman Valley Regional Park. We walked the trail between the sandbank at the Chapman River estuary and the Chapman road bridge (near Sunset Beach) and saw an Osprey close-up, Little Pied ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Main Club The long-awaited departure of Whale Watch Western Australia’s (WWWA) Blue Whale tour was heralded on Saturday morning by a brisk sea breeze but clear skies and the promise of good weather as we attempted to track down the sometimes elusive Blue Whale—the largest animal known to have ever ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch As most of us are aware, animal and plant biodiversity and the associated ecological processes underpin the health of our environment and therefore its ability to support human needs. Species diversity is changing globally and locally, but the complexity of ecological communities hampers a general understanding of ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch The speaker for May was Dr. Tony Friend, Principal Research Scientist in the Fauna Conservation Program at DBCA. His topic was a summary of the history and developments in efforts to ensure the survival of Numbats in the wild. Tony started the presentation with a discussion ...
Read more →Young Nats The Young Nats living in the northern suburbs were recently invited to join in two activities conducted or co-hosted by the Friends of North Ocean Reef-Iluka Foreshore, which is co-ordinated by Don Poynton, the Chairman of the Northern Suburbs Branch. In April the Young Nats participated in the ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch Eighteen enthusiastic naturalists joined the fourth survey of the bush block at Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott in April 2018. The visitors included two local families and the Deputy Principal of the nearby school, which was encouraging. This bush is where the scarp and flats intersect. We are surveying ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch The speaker for our April meeting was KRMB member Daniel Heald, on the topic of the use of citizen science webbased platforms to improve our knowledge of invertebrates. His talk was supported by images downloaded from some of the websites. Numerous citizen science websites have been ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Due to health issues it had been eight months since Brice Wells (OAM) had made a presentation but from the beginning it was obvious he had not lost his passion for birds, nor lost his communication skills. Brice opened with his only slide containing words: “On the ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Dr Mark Brundrett asked to delay his presentation until March so that he could utilise material from a very recent paper he co-authored entitled, Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity1. Mark split his presentation into four parts, commencing with an overview of Australia’s ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch Our guest speaker for the night, Johnny Prefumo, drove all the way up from Bunbury to give a packed Jorgensen Park Pavilion a first-rate talk on frogs for our April DRB meeting. Everyone loved it! This was far more than a survey of batrachian taxonomy in the ...
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