As with any good field trip preparation the organizer conducts a recce (aka Twink Smurthwaite). As such, the week before the DRB Avon Valley National Park excursion, a quick trip up the Toodyay Road was made to check out the opportunities for the weekend ahead. On arrival, however, the park ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
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 study natural history. Before ...
Read more →Visit to the Armadale Reptile and Wildlife Centre. Ten KRMB members attended the visit to the Centre and were joined by Steve Page from the Main Club. Situated on South West Highway in Wungong the Centre boasts a fine range of Australian reptiles, mammals and birds. It is popular with ...
Read more →At the April meeting our guest presenter was Bill van der Pyl who showed us a selection of his bird photographs. Bill has lived in the Kwinana Rockingham area all his life having been born in Medina and lived in Baldivis and now Waikiki. Bill has a love of nature ...
Read more →To paraphrase the hackneyed term, ‘one good tern led deservedly to another’ at Penguin Island, during DRB’s March outing. Twenty two members and friends braved an exquisite day and crossed the water to the largest of the islands in the Shoalwater Marine Park. Various terns – Caspian, Fairy, Bridled, Crested – were ...
Read more →At the March meeting our guest speaker was Peter Wilmot and his topic was “Lake Mealup on the road to recovery: an adaptive management approach to acid sulphate soils and typha invasion”. The presentation was co-authored by Heidi Bucktin of the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) and was first ...
Read more →As a follow up to the presentation at the March general meeting, on Sunday 17th March ten KRMB members joined Peter Wilmot for a visit to Lake Mealup to view the results of the recovery project. For many of us this was our first visit to Lake Mealup so we had ...
Read more →Gill Basnett, at very short notice, gave us a truly wonderful insight into Gouldian Finches and Fire regimes in the Kimberley, a topic she was well qualified to handle having done extensive ecological fieldwork in central Kimberley. Gouldians live in the largest savannah in the world and one which has ...
Read more →Darwin Day, the birthday anniversary of Charles Darwin, is celebrated around the world on or around the 12th of February. The WA Naturalists’ Club has decided to begin our own tradition of celebrating Darwin Day and this year naturalists of all ages met, to learn a little about Darwin’s life, about evolution and ...
Read more →On Friday 9th February 2013, Hills’ community member and secretary of the Darling Range Branch (DRB) of the WA Naturalists’ Club, Dr Arthur Conacher (retired UWA geographer), presented a talk titled “Researching the salt problem in the Southwest of WA.” Arthur has mentored and supervised several students researching aspects of ...
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