The Club is delighted to announce that Neale Bougher has just been awarded a 3 year Research Grant under the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) National Taxonomy Research Grant Program. The research will be conducted by Neale and co-investigator Dr Brandon Matheny. Neale was able to apply for this Research ...
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The long weekend of 4-6 June, 2011, found 13 DRB members along with Diana’s ‘3 girls’ camped at Lake Brown out of Nungarin, which is roughly 60 km north of Merredin. What a great spot – picturesque granite rocks which were honeycombed around the fringes near our c one large ...
Read more →Twenty two Naturalists met at the Hill Street entrance to the high, western portion of Kalamunda National Park on Sunday May 22nd, where they were spoilt by pre-walk scones, jam and cream kindly prepared by Judy and Andre du Plessis. A gentle circuit introduced participants to this section of the ...
Read more →Dr Mikael Siversson, Curator of Palaeontology at the WA Museum, was our guest speaker for the May meeting and presented a talk on the Australian megafauna. To set the scene Mikael began with an introduction to plate tectonics and briefly covered the geological mechanisms that create, destroy and drive the ...
Read more →Penguin Island is different at every visit. Depending on the season, the weather and the tide, there are different things to see. At this time of the year (April) there is some courtship activity going on among the Little Penguins, and we managed to see and hear a few in ...
Read more →Despite the low water, that exposed the shallow thrombolite edges of the lake, members and friends of DRB, had an exciting day at Lake Richmond, Rockingham on the 16th April. We assembled in the morning at the wonderful buildings of the Naragebup Regional Eco Centre at 10 a.m. for a ...
Read more →Michael Buzza’s “Museum of Natural History” in Guildford, is just that. From the metre long skull of an ICHTHYOSAURUS [found in Dorset, England in 1986], to a pair of Mammoth tusks, from a branch showing 20 differently coloured Budgerigars, to the rare pale form of the New Zealand Kiwi, the ...
Read more →The Cockburn Wetlands Education Centre is near the eastern shore of Bibra Lake. Denise Crosby, the Centre manager, talked to us about the local frogs, before taking us for a walk at night. Moaning-frog Photo: Felix We learnt that the male Moaning Frog burrows backwards, digging a deep burrow. There ...
Read more →On February 20th over thirty people gathered at Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre to see first hand how their operation works. This was a follow up to our first meeting of the year in which Zara Kiveli and Chris Phillips had explained the plight of Cockatoos and told us what ...
Read more →Conditions were perfect for snorkelling – a sunny day with an easterly wind making the sea calm and clear. A good number of Young Nats and their families came along, as well as Main Club members. The only problem was that with so many people in the water, including other ...
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