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Young Naturalists Excursion FebruaryAll photos M Martin A group of around seven Young Nats families celebrated Darwin Day on Sunday February 10th at Point Walter Reserve (Dyoondalup) on the Swan River. It was a very hot morning, and so after a short talk on the meaning and importance of Charles ...
Read more →KRM Branch Excursion FebruaryAll photos C. Prickett The February field trip was a good follow-up to the February meeting’s topic of marine plants. A good turnout of 12 attendees met at the car park at the end of Woodman Point View (at the north-western end of Jervoise Bay). As we ...
Read more →DRB Nats Excursion All Photographs by Frankie Wallace It was the second year that the DRB Nats attended the Blue Sky Festival in Mundaring—and it was an even bigger hit than last year. The DRB stall was constantly attended by a stream of visitors and the nature walks run by ...
Read more →KRM Branch February Meeting The speaker for our first meeting of 2019 was KRMB member Daniel Heald who gave a talk, supported by photographs, on marine plants of the local area. He started with a brief summary of the structure of seaweeds—a general term that covers all forms of marine ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch FebruaryAll photos D Poynton unless credited otherwise Rather than pick a single venue, the hosts of the 2018 ANN Get-together chose to showcase the variation in natural history found in south-western Victoria by using three locations for accommodation. This meant most interstate participants who were not self-driving ...
Read more →DRB Meeting February Speaker Tony Hodge, is a zoologist and bat care volunteer at Kanyana Wildlife. Tony began by telling the audience that bats were originally thought to be rodents or primates but amazingly, their closest living relatives are horses and rhinoceroses! There are two main types of bat: fruit ...
Read more →Main Club March Meeting Our speaker was geologist Mike Freeman. Mike graduated from Adelaide University and has 50 years’ experience in geology, including teaching the public about geology and landforms, and being involved in the Geological Survey of WA and land-use planning on the Swan Coastal Plain. Mike talked to ...
Read more →Our speaker, following the AGM, was Ryan Glowacki, Bushland Manager for the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Ryan began by talking about Quendas, which were until recently considered to be a subspecies of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Now they have been assigned their own species: Isoodon fusciventer. Before ...
Read more →as we all head into 2019 natural history activities. I’m attaching the Minutes GM2018 Anglesea held in Anglesea towards the end of ANN2018. ANN2018 was highly successful and greatly enjoyed by the 74 participants from all states and territories except for the Northern Territory. The Get-Together was hosted by Victoria under ...
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