Author: Wenfei TongPublisher: CSIRO Publishing (in Australia and New Zealand, Rest of World via Unipress books)ISBN: 9781486313280Hardback: 224 pagesPrice: $39.99 How Birds Behave seems to cover just about everything known about why birds do the things that they do, all within 215 pages. Summarising many scientific discoveries about birds, both old ...
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Read more →KRM Branch 25 Oct 2020 A good turn out of 11 members attended the October field excursion to the Spectacles Nature Reserve, Kwinana. The Spectacles is a 360ha reserve that is part of the Beeliar Regional Park system. Consisting of Banksia woodland and a central wetland fringed with Freshwater Paperbarks ...
Read more →NSBranch Nov 2020 GOLLY, we do have a big crowd today! With 25 participants our walk at Warwick Bushland attracted the largest crowd for the year. We commenced the walk with a brief introduction to the bush from Steph Murphy, coordinator of the Friends of Warwick Bushland, who acknowledged the ...
Read more →Nick Cook, Coordinator of Friends of Lake Claremont, led a group of 16 people (11 members and 5 visitors) around Lake Claremont. While we walked, Nick talked to us about the ecology and natural history of the area and the story of the amazing rehabilitation that has been achieved there. ...
Read more →The theme for this meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was a new member, Malcolm Roberts, who showed a slide show featuring some photographs of a trip to Karijini NP, on which he was a guide. The photographs highlighted the spectacular scenery to be found in the many ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch November 2020 Our speaker, Dr Kenny Travouillon, has been the Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum since 2015. Having studied the 10 to 24 million year old fossil remains of bandicoots found at Riversleigh, Queensland for his PhD, it was only natural for him to take ...
Read more →Main Club November 2020 Our speaker was Anthony Santoro, a PhD candidate at Murdoch University. For his Honours studies on the Oblong Turtle, Chelodina oblonga, Anthony surveyed thirty-five wetlands in the South West, involving about 1500 turtles. These turtles (we previously called them tortoises, but have adopted the American nomenclature) ...
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Read more →FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DPIRD) Look out for travel bugs as you wander out yonder Travellers heading out into Western Australia’s wild blue yonder this spring are being asked to join WA’s biosecurity efforts by keeping an eye out for unwanted plant and animal pests, ...
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