The Bookend Trust, through the NatureTrackers program, has recently launched the CallTrackers project – so anyone in Tasmania can help monitor bats through recording their calls. To build software able to identify bat species from recorded calls, they need lots of recordings of calls where bats have been identified. They are looking for bat roosts! They can identify the species [...]

Congratulations to Michael Driessen and Gunther Theischinger for writing TFNC’s latest publication. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Tasmania is designed as a field guide but with much more information than you would normally find. More information about and online purchases are available from our bookstore tasfieldnats.org.au/bookshop/ . Before the General Meeting, Michael will be available to sign and sell books. Please [...]

Long time members of the TFNC Sib and Keith Corbett have each been awarded the Order of Australia Medal for ‘Services to Conservation and the Environment’ on the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours List. In recent times they led the 2022 TFNC Easter Camp to the West Coast and February 2023’s overnight excursion to the Vale of Belvoir. Sib’s citation listed [...]

Members are invited to take part in a project that aims to monitor the distribution of hybridisation between native Pacific black ducks and introduced mallards. There is concern that the genetic integrity of Pacific black ducks in Tasmania may be threatened by introgressive hybridisation. The combination of high levels of hybridisation in human landscapes and Pacific black duck (PBD) shooting [...]

Genevieve is presented with the Australian Natural History Medallion by TFNC President Eddie Gall, 3rd. December 2022 At the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Christmas BBQ, we had the pleasure of presenting Dr. Genevieve Gates with the 2022 Australian Natural History Medallion. This prestigious national prize was awarded to her for her contribution to mycology, in [...]

Rainbow Lorikeets are classed as an invasive species, they are not protected and landowners are able to safely and humanely destroy them. The Environmental and Invasive Biosecurity Branch of NRE have a community Rainbow Lorikeet trapping program running in the Kingston and Hobart areas, where they have a bird trap near a feeder and euthanise any Rainbow Lorikeets when they [...]

With the recent inclusion of Tasmania, the NT, SA and WA, NatureMapr now provides the ability for anyone, via web or smartphone, to quickly upload their fauna and flora sightings from across Australia and shortly thereafter receive expert identification. This in turn provides important knowledge sharing of historic and current records and observations about the presence and distributions of native [...]

At the General Meeting on Thursday 7 April, 2022 members Kristi Ellingsen and Tony Daley were presented with the Victorian Entomological Society’s Le Souëf Memorial Award. They then gave a lively and informative presentation  entitled “Alert not Alarmed - Improving the Public Perception of Insects”. Visit the online Field Guide to the insects of Tasmania:  https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com

TFNC members Simon Grove and Lynne Forster, in collaboration with their colleague Nicholas Porch, have published the first in a proposed series of checklists of Tasmanian insects. This checklist is a catalogue of all the described species of Coleoptera (beetles) from Tasmania, including Macquarie Island. The book includes a meticulous up-to-date list of 2,864 species including over 600 endemics and [...]