The NSB conducted its Annual General Meeting in place of a speaker for the last meeting of the year and then held a digital photo competition. Chairperson, Don Poynton reported: Attendance at meetings had fluctuated throughout the year between 13 and 27 with an aggregate of 235 compared with 302 ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
What a great night this was (Friday 8 December 2017). More than 80 people turned up to hear Simon Cherriman speak to the DRB about his research into the ecology of Wedge-tailed Eagles, and it was obvious from the start that this was no passing interest on the way to ...
Read more →The November meeting began with a short presentation on Arctic terns by Kevn Griffiths. These long-lived birds migrate from high latitudes of the Arctic regions to breed in Antarctica annually, travels that can account for more than two million kilometres over a lifetime that can be thirty years. The focus ...
Read more →For most participants it was a first-time visit, for a few a return visit and for one, his second home! Seventeen members had the privilege of being conducted by Dr Lisa Kirkendale, Curator (Mollusca), on a guided tour through the wet and dry storage areas, laboratories and the Preparators’ workshop ...
Read more →The guest speaker for our October meeting was Otto Mueller and his topic was ‘Glimpses of something small’. Otto is an avid student of the insect world and likes to use his microscope to study aspects or organisms that are not clear to the naked eye. His talks are ...
Read more →Grady Brand is the Senior Curator of the Kings Park and Botanic Garden. He spoke to us at the November meeting about the role that the park plays in promoting the conservation value of the Western Australian flora. Grady has worked for Kings Park for 39 years; he remembers the ...
Read more →There was a surprise on our DRB excursion on 20th October to the Alan Anderson walk-trail in Walliston. We stumbled across a cleared area which had become absolutely full of wildflowers. There were so many flowers that we failed to identify or log them all; we gasped at the abundance. ...
Read more →A good turnout of 10 members met at the car park at the southern end of Lake Claremont on 24th October 2017, a partly cloudy but pleasant morning. After a brief introduction to the lake from Bob Goodale we set out along the walking path on the south-eastern side ...
Read more →Our speaker—club member Kirsten Tullis—commenced work at the WA Museum as a volunteer preparing bird specimens in 1981. Today, as the Museum’s Senior Preparator (Exhibition and Design Department), her job embraces not only taxidermy, but moulding, casting and biological model-making as well as assisting with the preparation and installation of ...
Read more →In October the main branch was lucky to get Greg and Bronwen Keighery along to talk about WA wildflowers, the focus of their working lives since the 1970s. Greg has worked as a scientist for Kings Park and WA government (CALM, then DPaW, and now DBCA i.e. Dept. Biodiversity, Conservation ...
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