DRBNats, 9 August 2024 The speaker, Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA) Kelly Sheldrick, shared her extensive understanding of bats, including some of her citizen science statistics on monitoring southwest Western Australia bats. She primarily focused on ecological roles and conservation. The key aspects of her work covered changing perceptions ...

DRBNats,10 May 2024 Current and past members of the Darling Range Branch and guests gathered at the Kalamunda Community Centre on Friday, 10 May, to celebrate the branch’s 50th anniversary since its founding in 1974 and the 90th birthday of co-founder Eric McCrum OAM. It was a jovial atmosphere as ...

DRBNats, 12 APRIL 2024 Dr Crawford is a research scientist at the WA Herbarium and is responsible for the Threatened Seed Centre. His expertise lies in ex-site seed conservation, which includes seed collection, storage, and longevity. He specializes in seed dormancy and germination of the collection. He offered us insight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...