RETIRED & LEISURED GROUP MAY MEETING REPORT The May meeting consisted of an attractive and engaging talk given by Gabor Bedo on his visit to Lord Howe Island in 2014. The island was discovered by Lieut. Ball on HMS Supply in 1788 and named after Lord Howe, the head of ...
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DRB June 2017 Meeting Mick Davis from the Shire of Kalamunda was our guest speaker for the June meeting about spiders. Mick, a graduate of Curtin University in Natural Resources management, is head of the Shire’s Environmental Friends group and his talk continues the theme of focussing on natural history ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS MAY MEETING REPORT The first scientific report on Broome’s dinosaur footprints was published in our club’s journal in 1952, (The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol. 3, p82-83). Mr Ludwig Glauert, Director of the WA Museum, reported the discovery by Walter Jones of Broome in 1945 of large impressions “shaped ...
Read more →SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2017 The Serventy Memorial Lecture is held every year by the WA Naturalists’ Club in honour of the outstanding contribution made by the Serventy family to Natural History in Australia and to our Club. The aim of the Serventy Memorial fund is to encourage young people to ...
Read more →Yellow-billed Spoonbills, C Prickett KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT WELLARD WETLANDS There were 11 attendees for our outing at the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands on a cool but fine autumn morning at the end of April. These wetlands normally provide a refuge for water birds during autumn when hot summer weather ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT This was a joint excursion with Friends of Jorgenson Park (FoJP) which is a very keen, but smallish, group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the one-time golf course to something like its original bushland status. Their ‘leader’ Joy explained to the 11 members and ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH April Golly Walk Report City skyline from northern shore of the lake (T Marwood) A perfect windless autumn morning, 24 bird species, some interesting invertebrates and an amphibian made our April GOLLY walk around the northern end of Herdsman Lake an enjoyable and rewarding excursion. Fifteen people ...
Read more →RETIRED & LEISURED GROUP APRIL MEETING REPORT Our April meeting was a talk by Tony Ahmat on Australia’s yellow diamonds, specifically the Ellendale diamond mine. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring substance and alluvial diamonds were known in Australia from 1851 and discovered in commercial quantities in 1895. The Ellendale ...
Read more →KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL MEETING REPORT At the April meeting we viewed the documentary Houtman Abrolhos Islands—Wilderness Regained, which was produced by Bob and Ann Goodale in the early 1980s. For many of the audience this was the first time they had seen the film. Bob Goodale gave a brief introduction: ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH MAY MEETING REPORT Members of DRB may have been forgiven in thinking that their May meeting was going to be a ‘flora-walk in the park’—Kalamunda National Park in fact—presented by Gooseberry Hill resident Ken Patterson. Perhaps they expected an evening of interesting observations of the flora and ...
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