DRB Presents: Lesley van Schoubroeck and Dan Carter speaking about on the Jirdarup Bushland and the Birds of Jirdarup Book
Linette's talk is on diversity in small Australian dasyurid marsupials and will go through the work I've been doing since PhD to now which is resolving the taxonomy of Australia's smallest marsupials using molecular data and museum specimens.
DRB Presents: Kelly Sheldrick (CCWA) speaking on the Christmas Island Bats and Nature Fundraiser
DRB Presents: Kelly Sheldrick (CCWA) speaking on the Bat Monitoring Program and the Christmas Island Pipistrelle
DRB Presents: Diana Papenfus talking about Christmas Island
DRB Presents: Amy Wild from Amy Wild Adventures with live Reptiles
DRB Presents: 50th Anniversary Celebration
DRB Presents: Andrew Crawford from the West Australian Seed Centre talking about Safe guarding seed: a modern day Noah’s ark
Western Australian vertebrate palaeontology has had a slow and bumpy ride from the first staggered descriptions in the early 1900s, to the world famous Nullarbor cave megafauna discoveries at the turn of the century. All these discoveries would not have been possible without members of the public pointing out ‘large bones’ or ‘giant footprints’ to museum or university scientists. The Swan Coastal Plain has several fossil deposits detailing the past faunal diversity of Perth and surrounds, stretching from Jurien Bay to Rottnest Island.
This talk will cover how the public can collect fossils responsibly (permits, safety etc.), where locals may find ‘subfossils’ in the Perth hills, some of the basics for identifying native animal bones, and where to send the ‘weird’ ones.
Charles is a member of the DRB Nats and writes the following about himself and his talk:
As a nature nerd with a lifelong passion for just about anything to do with the environment, one of the best ways I’ve found for discovering new and interesting things is to go spotlighting, that is, going out at night with a torch and seeing what you can find. The bush is a totally different place at night, and there is a whole host of new and interesting things to be found, some of which I’ll be running through in February.
DRB Presents: James (Jimmy) Lamb talking about Wildlife in the Perth Hills, Wheatbelt and Australia
DRB Presents: Eric McCrum talking about his book: "The Nature of the Jarrah Forest"
