The June field trip was to Baldivis Children’s Forest, a small reserve of 49 ha on Old Mandurah Road. The reserve features tuart woodland and the Conservation Category Wetland, Outridge Swamp. The reserve was previously part of an agricultural pasture block and has been restored to its current state through ...
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Here is a chance to help one of our volunteer community groups, the Friends of the Western Ground Parrot, to win $5000 to help them with the important work. By clicking on following highlighted words you’ll be able to vote for this project and if they get the most votes, they ...
Read more →We thought you’d might like to know that the Bibbulmun Track Foundation has recently released new Bibbulmun Track guidebooks. They are also recruiting new members in their May Member Madness. New Guidebooks The Bibbulmun Track Foundation has produced eight new Guidebooks to assist walkers to navigate the world-famous 1,000km Western Australian walk ...
Read more →Field Trip 4th May 2014 The May field trip was to Wellard Wetlands with a good turnout of 14 on an overcast morning. The area that is now the wetlands used to be treeless farmland until Alcoa commenced the extraction of clay in the 1980s for the purpose of lining ...
Read more →Roz Hart and Sapphire McMullan-Fisher are fundraising for the International Society for Fungal Conservation and as part of this they are producing T-shirts. If you would like to be involved please order T-shirts by 9 May 2014. As these will be made to order this is a strict date. T-shirts will ...
Read more →The April field trip was to Anstey Swamp Reserve in Karnup. The reserve is Bush Forever Site 379 and has an area of 270 ha. It is managed as part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. It is one of the Stakehill suite of wetlands. In terms of landform and soils ...
Read more →Dr Stephen Davies, Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Biology, Curtin University and ornithologist extraordinaire, presented a talk on megapods at the DRB meeting held on 14th March. His illustrated talk presented us with the general characteristics of the megapods (Family Megapodiidae; with a literal meaning “large footed”), with members including ...
Read more →General Meeting 7th March The March meeting was a Members’ night. The first presentation was from Colin Prickett who showed a number of photographs of birds. The first few photos were taken during a holiday in Fiji and showed Bar tailed Godwits, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Sandpiper and Reef Heron on ...
Read more →Field Trip 9th March 2014 The March field trip was to Lake Clifton and a few spots on the Peel Harvey Estuary. The early cloud had cleared by the time the ten of us arrived at the car park near the Lake Clifton boardwalk resulting in beautiful sunny conditions. ...
Read more →Dr Barry Wilson, former Curator of Molluscs at the WA Museum, presented a talk covering the general biogeography of the North West shelf with new information on the extensive coral reefs of the Kimberley Coast. Barry has an in-depth knowledge of this remote area from his many research trips; his ...
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