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 ...
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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, ...
Read more →AGM AND STATE CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 AT THE QUINTILIAN SCHOOL IN MT CLAREMONT We are seeking expressions of interest from any members who would like to volunteer to help run a club stall at this Conference. The exhibition will take place during lunch and afternoon tea and will be held ...
Read more →NS Branch Saturday, 26 Sept 2020 As it was our first attempt at a bio-blitz, the event must be considered a success with 56 people, including quite a few children, signing in. I know a few who attended forgot to sign, so the total was probably nearer 60. The Great ...
Read more →Pied Cormorant attempting to swallow a large fish. Image: Colin Prickett KRM Branch 26-29 Sept 2020 Our field outing for September was a long weekend stay at Yallingup, with 11 attendees. Our base was to be a house on a large block that we had rented for the weekend. As ...
Read more →18 Sept 2020 On Friday 18 September at 2pm in the afternoon, the weather was sunny and it appeared to be a beautiful afternoon. Eighteen people from the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club and the Wildflower Society of Western Australia were met by Jolanda at the Kukerin Caravan Park, where she ...
Read more →Presented at KRMB Meeting – 21 Sept 2020 The speaker for the September meeting was Colin Prickett who delivered a presentation on the results of the December 2019 Shorebird Count for the Peel-Yalgorup System (PYS) which forms Ramsar Site 482. The presentation was kindly provided by Sharon Meredith of the ...
Read more →30 YEARS OF BUSHWALKS IN OUR LAST WILDERNESS NS Branch September 2020 Mike Donaldson, geologist, photographer and publisher, has journeyed to the Kimberley so many times over the last 30 years that he has lost count. At least once every year he sets off with a small band of friends ...
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