Our presenter at this on-line meeting was Professor Kliti Grice, Distinguished Professor at John Curtin University and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the Founding Director of the WA Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University. There have been five mass ...
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Main Club Excursion June 2020 With COVID-19 restrictions easing, the club is organising excursions once more. To celebrate, a group of 20 members and guests met for a guided walk through the bushland at the end of Schofield Rd, Wattle Grove (Bush Forever site #50). We were led by Professor ...
Read more →Contents Australasian Grebes – Starting a Family………..2 Ruddy Turnstones – Perfectly Camouflaged …3 Bynoe’s Prickly Gecko……………………………………4 Busselton Naturalists’ Work at Ambergate Reserve……………………………………….5
Read more →ONLINE May General Meeting Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we used Google Meet in place of the May physical meeting. Google Meet is a video conferencing app that integrates with G Suite ( a suite of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools) used by the Club. About 25 members logged in without ...
Read more →A HUB FOR EXPLORING AND RECORDING NATURE IN YOUR BACKYARD This COVID-19 isolation is a tough gig. The good news is that being stuck in your backyard provides a wealth of things to engage and inspire you. You’ll wonder why you didn’t do it before. Nature is not closed and ...
Read more →In the light of the current restrictions on group gatherings, interstate and regional travel and exclusions of public access to many national parks and state forests, the organising committee of the Australian Naturalists Network has very reluctantly decided to postpone the get-together planned for this September in Stanthorpe. Although this ...
Read more →Club member Mish Mann found a few interesting creatures to share with us on Facebook. To see all the photos, go to the Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch – WA Naturalists’ Club new Facebook group. She writes: “The spider is from my backyard. Daniel Heald kindly did an ID and it’s ...
Read more →From the Field Terry has shared some lovely images on the Facebook group this past month. He writes: “The Stirling Range National Park suffered a devastating fire that began by lightning strikes on December 26 last year, burning through approximately 50 000 hectares of diverse habitat, leaving another 65 000 ...
Read more →MARCH KRMBranch A small group of seven members met for our March 22 outing. Erskine Lakes, situated in the suburb of Erskine in the City of Mandurah, is a reasonably large area of green open space containing two freshwater lakes. Situated close to the Peel-Harvey Estuary, these lakes are used ...
Read more →MARCH GENERAL MEETING –KRM BRANCH The guest speaker for our March meeting was Dr Terry Houston, Research Associate in the Department of Terrestrial Zoology (Entomology) at the WA Museum. Terry started his presentation by saying that many of the classical characterisations of Australia’s native bees have been subject to disruption ...
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