On Monday, May 8, those of us who arrived at Collie early enough drove to Honeymoon Pool in the afternoon. It lived up to its romantic name with large round stones and floating ducks in the still water, framed by trailing WA Peppermints. There were many Currawongs, busy on the ...
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NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT GOLLY WALK: I remember visiting the Channel 7 studios for Telethon thirty years ago. How the site has changed! Today the site is being developed as a new housing estate but fortunately, like our GOLLY walkers in May, the residents will be able to explore ...
Read more →RETIRED & LEISURED GROUP MAY MEETING REPORT The May meeting consisted of an attractive and engaging talk given by Gabor Bedo on his visit to Lord Howe Island in 2014. The island was discovered by Lieut. Ball on HMS Supply in 1788 and named after Lord Howe, the head of ...
Read more →DRB June 2017 Meeting Mick Davis from the Shire of Kalamunda was our guest speaker for the June meeting about spiders. Mick, a graduate of Curtin University in Natural Resources management, is head of the Shire’s Environmental Friends group and his talk continues the theme of focussing on natural history ...
Read more →Remember the fungi grant that the club co-funded for three years, together with ABRS, for Dr Neale Bougher to work on the fungus family Inocybiaceae? At last, the book is finally going to be in print! After a lot of hiccups, lack of funding for ABRS and other associated ABRS ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS MAY MEETING REPORT The first scientific report on Broome’s dinosaur footprints was published in our club’s journal in 1952, (The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol. 3, p82-83). Mr Ludwig Glauert, Director of the WA Museum, reported the discovery by Walter Jones of Broome in 1945 of large impressions “shaped ...
Read more →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 ...
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: https://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 ...
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