Five members and four guests attended this excursion, led by local naturalists Shelley and Kendra Campbell. Shelley provided an identification sheet and explanation about the identifying features of the orchids to be seen at the park. The group completed the Woodlands Walk trail, a 2.6km loop. There were examples of ...

About 25 past and present Club members The Darling Range Branch held an AGM on the 8th of November 2024 under Section 17.3 of the WA Naturalists Club Constitution to elect a committee of management. Here is the list of all appointed unopposed: There were several vacant positions as follows: Efforts ...

Darling Range Branch, 8 November 2024 Jirdarup Bushland is an 18 ha area of remnant native bush in the Town of Victoria Park; it is the closest Bush Forever site to the city of Perth. At the DRB Nats meeting on Friday, 9 November, Lesley van Schoubroeck and Dan Carter ...

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 ...