The August outing was to Sullivan Rock, which is located south east of Jarrahdale in the Monadnocks National Park. Six members plus one visitor met at the picnic area on a beautiful winter morning and made our way across the Albany Highway to commence the walk up Sullivan Rock, one ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Research ecologist Dr Adrian Wayne’s discussion could have been titled ‘The ups and downs of Woylie populations in WA’ , for that is what has happened in recent years to these endearing little macropods, with several serious crashes that sent researchers scrambling for answers before it was too late. Adrian brought ...
Read more →Surprise, surprise – the stormy weather held off with quite a bit of sunshine on Sunday July 20th and the few people who were expected (weather wise) turned out to be 30 enthusiasts, including some visitors to the Reserve who were welcomed to join our group! The planned 45 minute ...
Read more →The June field trip was to Baldivis Children’s Forest, a small reserve of 49 ha on Old Mandurah Road. The reserve features tuart woodland and the Conservation Category Wetland, Outridge Swamp. The reserve was previously part of an agricultural pasture block and has been restored to its current state through ...
Read more →Field Trip 4th May 2014 The May field trip was to Wellard Wetlands with a good turnout of 14 on an overcast morning. The area that is now the wetlands used to be treeless farmland until Alcoa commenced the extraction of clay in the 1980s for the purpose of lining ...
Read more →The April field trip was to Anstey Swamp Reserve in Karnup. The reserve is Bush Forever Site 379 and has an area of 270 ha. It is managed as part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. It is one of the Stakehill suite of wetlands. In terms of landform and soils ...
Read more →Dr Stephen Davies, Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Biology, Curtin University and ornithologist extraordinaire, presented a talk on megapods at the DRB meeting held on 14th March. His illustrated talk presented us with the general characteristics of the megapods (Family Megapodiidae; with a literal meaning “large footed”), with members including ...
Read more →General Meeting 7th March The March meeting was a Members’ night. The first presentation was from Colin Prickett who showed a number of photographs of birds. The first few photos were taken during a holiday in Fiji and showed Bar tailed Godwits, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Sandpiper and Reef Heron on ...
Read more →Field Trip 9th March 2014 The March field trip was to Lake Clifton and a few spots on the Peel Harvey Estuary. The early cloud had cleared by the time the ten of us arrived at the car park near the Lake Clifton boardwalk resulting in beautiful sunny conditions. ...
Read more →Dr Barry Wilson, former Curator of Molluscs at the WA Museum, presented a talk covering the general biogeography of the North West shelf with new information on the extensive coral reefs of the Kimberley Coast. Barry has an in-depth knowledge of this remote area from his many research trips; his ...
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