DRB Nats, 8 March 2024 Dr Thorn is a technical officer at the Western Australia Museum, where she manages the terrestrial vertebrate collection (birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians). She shared her love of vertebrate palaeontology with descriptions of early 1900s explorations and her own experiences in caves up and down ...
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Darling Range Branch
15 February 2024 Our leader Dr John Huisman, Author, and Herbarium Curator is known for his extensive work in taxonomic research into Western Australia’s marine flora. He gave a brief outline of the work undertaken at the site and the history of Western Australia (WA) as the first Herbarium in ...
Read more →Twenty-two people (14 members and eight visitors) gathered at the Henderson Environmental Centre adjacent to the Star Swamp Reserve on a fine, mild morning for a walk to view post-fire grasstrees and other flora. Leaders were Distinguished Professor Emeritus Byron Lamont, Christine Curry from the Northern Suburbs Branch and Friends ...
Read more →DRB Nats, 8 September 2023 There is more to the birds of the Broz Park Wetlands than is first obvious to the eye. “It just looks like a bit of ordinary parkland”, Rachel explained, “but there are more birds there than we imagined, and we’ve seen birds we’ve rarely seen ...
Read more →DRB Nats Excursion – 19 August 2023 The park offers a variety of bushwalking trails that cater to different preferences and fitness levels. One of the popular trails is the Wildflower Walk Trail, which spans approximately 4.6 km. It is a grade 3 trail that features short, steep sections and ...
Read more →DRBNats, 10 February 2023 Distinguished Professor Emeritus Byron Lamont AO presented his talk on Pollinators and Pollination in Southwestern Australian Flora on Friday, 10th February 2023, as the first speaker of the year at DRB. His presentation was colourful and spectacular, with many specimens of flowers for people to examine ...
Read more →DRBNats 9 December 2022 Ask people what their favourite Australian bird is, and many will answer “the maggie”, the Australian Magpie. Indeed, even those who profess no interest in birds can almost always name this one. But for all their ubiquitous popularity, there’s a lot we don’t know about them, ...
Read more →DRB Nats 21 -23 October 2022 This intergenerational weekend offered the 19 participants a variety of opportunities to see the Dryandra woodland featuring the largest remnant of native vegetation in the western Wheatbelt. It’s a valuable and diverse conservation area. Well-signed walking trails guided us through magnificent open eucalypt woodland. The tall, white-barked wandoo and the mallet trees are impressive. ...
Read more →DRB Nats 12th August 2022 The guest speaker for the August Meeting was Mick Davies, a well-known local conservationist and leader talking about his encounter with Phascogales. A proven environmental project manager and communicator, he uses his extensive ecological knowledge, excellent project management skills and proven community engagement experience to ...
Read more →DRBNats, 21st May 2022 This meandering walk trail in the magnificent Ellis Brook Valley is just off the Tonkin Highway, 15 km from Gosnells. We saw a variety of orchids and landscape trees generic to the area. Eucalyptus wandoo and Acacia dentifera were in abundance (not yet flowering). We walked ...
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