What a great night this was (Friday 8 December 2017). More than 80 people turned up to hear Simon Cherriman speak to the DRB about his research into the ecology of Wedge-tailed Eagles, and it was obvious from the start that this was no passing interest on the way to ...

The November meeting began with a short presentation on Arctic terns by Kevn Griffiths. These long-lived birds migrate from high latitudes of the Arctic regions to breed in Antarctica annually, travels that can account for more than two million kilometres over a lifetime that can be thirty years. The focus ...

There was a surprise on our DRB excursion on 20th October to the Alan Anderson walk-trail in Walliston. We stumbled across a cleared area which had become absolutely full of wildflowers. There were so many flowers that we failed to identify or log them all; we gasped at the abundance. ...

It was a cloudy, damp day as eleven of us set off on October 7 with the Deputy Principal of Good Shepherd School, to do the first survey of their 12-acre bush block in Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott. The DRB has committed to doing a survey every two months until the ...

Thirty-two DRB members came to a members-only event at the Greens’ Land-for-Wildlife and Streamcare property in the Perth Hills on August 26. They started with a wildflower quiz. Forty-nine Western Australian flowering plants, including five with significant conservation status, had been named and labelled in the property prior to people’s ...

Eddy Wajon’s talk on re-establishing functional ecosystems at Chingarrup Sanctuary was an amazing story of bringing back to life a one-time farming plot. The sanctuary forms part of the Gondwana Link stretch of conservation land and was purchased fifteen years ago after the previous owner breached the conditions of the ...

DARLING RANGE BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT AUGUST: KELMSCOTT – TEACHING CHILDREN BIRDWATCHING Our nature survey and walk at Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott in August was called off at the last minute owing to rain. However, instead, the Deputy Principal, Diane Newman, invited us to talk to the Year 6 ...

Ashleigh Wolfe, a PhD candidate at Curtin University, presented us with a lively and interactive talk about reptiles. The presentation broadly covered reptile species most likely encountered in and around Perth and a study of people’s perception and responses to reptiles. Her postgraduate studies into ‘How living in the city ...