They’re shy, secretive, seductive, endangered and very well camouflaged. That is the picture painted by Brenda Newby of the Western Ground Parrot. Numbers of this little, largely mottled green and yellow, ground parrot are estimated at around a mere 140 at present and being endemic to WA’s south eastern coast ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Seventeen Naturalists settled themselves comfortably in two cottages at Governor’s Circle Kingstown on the Friday. We organized ourselves into a fairly relaxed program. We started each day with a bird walk and then a snorkeling session and mostly in the afternoon we had a botany walk which tended to double ...
Read more →Vicky Laurie’s passion for the Kimberley became very evident as she introduced our audience to aspects of remote areas that a very few would get the chance to view – with the aid of a light plane and a helicopter! So much easier to spot new and rare flora and ...
Read more →First we walked down to the lake and saw a great many waterbirds. There were Black Ducks, Shelducks and Wood Ducks, Swamphens and Coots, White Ibis and a Black Swan on an island nest. A Kestrel was hovering over the lake and Swallows were flying around after insects. We then ...
Read more →On the bush walk at star swamp we spotted and learned about some native plants. It was interesting especially tapping the puff balls to see if the spores came out. We liked the bird and frog noises on the tape and enjoyed guessing them. The show and tell was fun ...
Read more →On a fine, winter’s day in July 30 people met at Tomato Lake Kewdale. This included members of Kate’s regular Nature Walking Group. Although it is less than 2 km around the lake, the walk took us 2 hours because there was so much of interest. Originally this lake was ...
Read more →The long weekend of 4-6 June, 2011, found 13 DRB members along with Diana’s ‘3 girls’ camped at Lake Brown out of Nungarin, which is roughly 60 km north of Merredin. What a great spot – picturesque granite rocks which were honeycombed around the fringes near our c one large ...
Read more →Twenty two Naturalists met at the Hill Street entrance to the high, western portion of Kalamunda National Park on Sunday May 22nd, where they were spoilt by pre-walk scones, jam and cream kindly prepared by Judy and Andre du Plessis. A gentle circuit introduced participants to this section of the ...
Read more →Dr Mikael Siversson, Curator of Palaeontology at the WA Museum, was our guest speaker for the May meeting and presented a talk on the Australian megafauna. To set the scene Mikael began with an introduction to plate tectonics and briefly covered the geological mechanisms that create, destroy and drive the ...
Read more →Penguin Island is different at every visit. Depending on the season, the weather and the tide, there are different things to see. At this time of the year (April) there is some courtship activity going on among the Little Penguins, and we managed to see and hear a few in ...
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