This book is an excellent field guide for those looking at our plants in the South West (Noongar country) who are curious to know how useful they were to Aboriginal and other Australians. Vivienne Hansen speaks from an Aboriginal perspective and links in with the larger Australian community. This link ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Nine members of KRMB plus Lou Scampoli from the Main Club attended the excursion on February 26 to the Coodanup foreshore and Creery Wetlands within the Peel-Harvey Estuary. These locations are part of the extensive Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site and are an important feeding area for migratory shorebirds that depart their ...
Read more →Eddie Dell was the first speaker at our initial meeting for 2017. He spoke about the birds on his Sawyers Valley property, where he has identified 38 species. He brought in a New Holland Honeyeater’s nest—a tiny one—from which two young birds had hatched and later flew off to a ...
Read more →Bob Goodale was the first presenter, showing a number of photographs that he had taken at Goodale Sanctuary over the summer. First up were photographs of Western Grey Kangaroos on the edge of the main lake. This was followed by a photo of a Swamp Harrier taking a drink on ...
Read more →Speaker David Knowles from ‘Spineless Wonders’ grabbed our attention immediately by questioning whether, as naturalists, we needed to recalibrate how we think about our local fauna. We spend a disproportionately large amount of time looking at mammals and birds, which only make up just over one percent of Western Australia’s ...
Read more →Faye Arcaro, photojournalist and enthusiastic advocate of organic horticulture, presented us with the first talk of the year, at our new venue. This was a well-attended meeting with as many visitors as members. There are more than 2000 native bee species in Australia and academic reference sources about them are ...
Read more →Club member Ry Beaver is a keen photographer, citizen scientist and fauna spotter. He has his own blog, Wildlife Watching in Australia. Here is an excerpt from it, dated Jan 25, 2017: “Ever since I have been researching wildlife watching I have wanted to go to Dryandra Woodland. 2 hours out of ...
Read more →Erickson, Todd E., Barrett, Russell L., Merritt, David J. and Dickson, Kingsley W. (eds) (2016) Pilbara seed atlas and field guide: plant restoration in Australia’s Arid Northwest. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Vic. The Pilbara is an area we associate with mining particularly of iron ore and, previously, for its pastoral industry. ...
Read more →At our AGM for 2017, Honorary Life Memberships were presented to Roz Hart, Rob and Maureen Skeet and also Mike Gregson, in recognition of their great service to the organisation. Mike Gregson stepped down from the Council and from his role as Young Nats coordinator. Joan Sharpe joined the Council ...
Read more →To emphasise a shift in focus from nudibranchs to the myriad other members of the phylum Mollusca, our November guest speaker, Lisa Kirkendale, Curator of Molluscs at the WA Museum (WAM), rearranged her talk to be Other WA molluscs and nudibranchs. By doing so, Lisa was able to cover subtopics ...
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