Talk at the DRB Nats, July 2019 Starting with Sputnik and ending with Santa, we took a walk through the southern night sky. Our guide was Arthur Harvey, a volunteer at the Perth Observatory in Bickley*. Arthur’s interest in observing the night sky started with Sputnik in 1957 and so, ...

Erika Roper treated a packed house to a well-illustrated, informative and entertaining talk on her study of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, work she is conducting for the degree of PhD at UWA. Much of the talk was focused on the spread of these cockatoos into Perth’s urban environments, where they ...

Amy Griffiths delighted us all with an entertaining and informative presentation on reptiles at the DRB Nats in April. Amy has a Bachelor of Biological Sciences, and licences to display wildlife for educational purposes and relocate reptiles. She grew up attending the DRB Nats and is the grand-daughter of Kevn ...

DRB Nats excursion We had a ball. Thirty-seven DRB members and visitors took over the Myalup Pines Cottages for an unofficial long weekend beginning on Anzac Day. The accommodation was excellent and the resulting camaraderie was wonderful. We began the weekend with a nature inspired art exhibition courtesy of Andrew ...

DRB Nats March Meeting There was excitement at the DRB Nats when over 90 people arrived to hear Professor Ken McNamara talk about plant fossils. He had worked as a palaeontologist at the WA Museum for over 30 years and been the Director of the world’s oldest geological museum, the ...

DRB Nats Excursion All Photographs by Frankie Wallace It was the second year that the DRB Nats attended the Blue Sky Festival in Mundaring—and it was an even bigger hit than last year. The DRB stall was constantly attended by a stream of visitors and the nature walks run by ...

DRB Meeting February Speaker Tony Hodge, is a zoologist and bat care volunteer at Kanyana Wildlife. Tony began by telling the audience that bats were originally thought to be rodents or primates but amazingly, their closest living relatives are horses and rhinoceroses! There are two main types of bat: fruit ...

DRB Report on November Workshop There are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and at least 800 of them are in Western Australia, yet many people confuse our native bees with the introduced European honeybee (Apis mellifera). However, those attending Dr Terry Houston’s native bee workshop learnt to ...

– at the DRB Nats. Simon Nevill took us on a pictorial adventure tour of the five Western Deserts as his way of bringing nature photography to life at the DRB Nats December meeting. During 2018 he travelled alone for 15,000 km along the tracks of all five deserts: the ...