SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2017 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 ...
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The following periodicals have come into the office, if you wish to borrow them or have them forwarded by email (‘electronic’ only.) Electronic Friends of Warwick Bushland newsletter (Autumn) Field Naturalists’ Association of Canberra Inc.’s May 2017 “Field Natter” newsletter Fungimap eNews, May 2017 Hard copy Tasmanian Field Naturalists newsletter, ...
Read more →Paperback | May 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643097544 | 576 pages | 245 x 170 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour Paintings, Maps – See more at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6520/#details At 576 pages, this is a large, comprehensive review of Australia’s more than 900 bird species. It has many excellent features, the ...
Read more →Paperback | June 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643107076 | 464 pages | 215 x 148 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour photographs – See more at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6899/ With its clear, comprehensive, beautiful images and sensible layout, this is a great book for the amateur arachnophile. To begin with there is ...
Read more →Yellow-billed Spoonbills, C Prickett KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT WELLARD WETLANDS There were 11 attendees for our outing at the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands on a cool but fine autumn morning at the end of April. These wetlands normally provide a refuge for water birds during autumn when hot summer weather ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT This was a joint excursion with Friends of Jorgenson Park (FoJP) which is a very keen, but smallish, group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the one-time golf course to something like its original bushland status. Their ‘leader’ Joy explained to the 11 members and ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH April Golly Walk Report City skyline from northern shore of the lake (T Marwood) A perfect windless autumn morning, 24 bird species, some interesting invertebrates and an amphibian made our April GOLLY walk around the northern end of Herdsman Lake an enjoyable and rewarding excursion. Fifteen people ...
Read more →RETIRED & LEISURED GROUP APRIL MEETING REPORT Our April meeting was a talk by Tony Ahmat on Australia’s yellow diamonds, specifically the Ellendale diamond mine. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring substance and alluvial diamonds were known in Australia from 1851 and discovered in commercial quantities in 1895. The Ellendale ...
Read more →KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL MEETING REPORT At the April meeting we viewed the documentary Houtman Abrolhos Islands—Wilderness Regained, which was produced by Bob and Ann Goodale in the early 1980s. For many of the audience this was the first time they had seen the film. Bob Goodale gave a brief introduction: ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH MAY MEETING REPORT Members of DRB may have been forgiven in thinking that their May meeting was going to be a ‘flora-walk in the park’—Kalamunda National Park in fact—presented by Gooseberry Hill resident Ken Patterson. Perhaps they expected an evening of interesting observations of the flora and ...
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