Main Club 5 May 2023 Our speaker was David Knowles, a naturalist well known for his wildlife education service “Spineless Wonders”, which he took into schools across the southwest, teaching about macro-invertebrates for 22 years. Now David is a full-time ecological consultant and conducts biodiversity inventory surveys in nature reserves ...

Main Club April 2023 Our speaker was Dr Wei Xu, senior lecturer in Entomology at Murdoch University. His main research interests are insects relevant to agriculture and medicine. His PhD research project at the University of California, Davis, was on the olfactory proteins of moths and mosquitoes. He is interested ...

March 3, 2023 Our speaker was ornithologist and conservation biologist Dr Claire Greenwell, who has a passion for seabirds. Claire has recently completed her PhD on the conservation of Australian Fairy Terns (Sternula neiris neiris) and is the convenor of the WA Fairy Tern Network. Fairy Terns are the smallest ...

Main Club February 2023 Our speaker was Dr Holly Bradley, an ecologist with a keen interest in conserving and managing threatened species and bringing Western science and traditional knowledge together. Holly has been a DRB Nats’ Club member for many years. For her honours degree, she studied Honey Possums – ...

Main Club 4 November 2022 Dr Boyd Wykes started his career early, as a child, banding birds. During his studies, he did a PhD on the Helmeted Honeyeater, then had a career as an ornithologist, which brought him to WA. In retirement, he indulged his passion for birds by investigating ...

Main Club, 2 September 2022 Dr Ana Sequeira spoke to us about the movements of megafauna in Shark Bay, known as Gathaaguda, by the traditional owners, the Malgana people. Ana moved to Western Australia from Portugal to do a PhD on Whale Sharks. Through that work, she developed a global ...

Main Club, 7 October 2022 Our speaker was scientist and educator Bronwen Keighery. As lead botanist for the EPA for 15 years, Bronwen helped to develop native vegetation as a critical factor in environmental assessment. She and her husband Greg were founding members of the Perth branch of the Wildflower ...