The guest speaker for our May meeting was Kate Brown from the Department of Parks and Wildlife who presented a talk entitled “Restoration of native plant communities and critical habitat on Penguin Island and the reintroduction of a species that has disappeared from Penguin Island – Native Hollyhock (Malva preissiana)”. ...
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30 April- 5 May 2016 It had been many years since the Naturalist Club had organised a trip to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands so it was not surprising that our quota of 25 was filled rapidly. Only two members had previously visited the islands – David Goodall AM who conducted ...
Read more →Prof Don Bradshaw presented a talk on this tiny, rare WA mammal that is neither a possum nor a devourer of honey. Professor Don Bradshaw, Chair of Zoology and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Animal Biology at UWA, presented a talk on Honey Possums to a well-attended meeting on ...
Read more →It was a long drive from Perth and we arrived at the Coalmine Beach Caravan Park in the early afternoon of Monday April 4th. Those who had arrived earlier were off on a drive around the nearby Knoll, so we followed. At the beach car park we saw a Western ...
Read more →Places are now closed on the ANN as well as the pre and post-ANN excursions. Go to page link ANN 2016 Excursions for further information.
Read more →The topic for the March meeting of KRMB was a presentation by Rosalie Barrett of photographs taken during a trip that she took with husband Geoff during September and October 2015 through the upper Mid West and Lower Murchison regions. The first part of the presentation showed wildflowers and flowering ...
Read more →Our planned excursion to Penguin Island in December 2015 had to be called off due to unseasonal rough weather conditions so it was decided to make it the destination for our first field trip of 2016. Nine members caught the 9am ferry across to Penguin Island where we were greeted ...
Read more →Our first KRMB meeting for 2016 was a members’ night, with two members presenting. First up was Chris Punter who presented a number of photographs taken during a visit to the Cocos Islands in 2015. He set the scene with an opening photograph of a tropical beach on Direction Island. ...
Read more →Shocking science: the natural history of animal electroreception Professor Shaun Collin will demystify the amazing, but little known, ability of animals to sense weak electric fields. Used by a range of different animals (both aquatic and terrestrial), this sensitive sensory modality is typically used to locate food in the absence ...
Read more →A very good turnout of 18 attended the KRMB Christmas Picnic Lunch on Sunday 13th December. All enjoyed the get together over lunch under the pergolas at the north western end of Lake Richmond. It was especially good to catch up with Ann and Otto Mueller, Stan and Margaret Telford ...
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