Club Field Trips

Field trips are an important part of the activities of WANOSCG.  Most members undertake numerous personal field trips throughout the year. In addition, four or more club organised group field trips are typically undertaken annually.

Group field trips provide members with an opportunity to visit areas, to find and photograph orchids they have not seen before and to learn about orchids from each other. Factors determining the areas visited include; the location of summer fires, winter rainfall patterns, information received from country members, requests from members and specialist trips to search for threatened orchid species.

Orchid flowering is not confined to the spring months and the first trips are usually held in April / May. Members are encouraged to contribute information on the number and location of orchids found to the club’s database.

Resources
The following links will help members with submitting data to the WANOSCG Database and DBCA Threatened and Priority orchids report:

• Sightings Database Reporting Template:.
  • WANOSCG Sightings Database (Members Only)
• Threatened and priority species DBCA report form and manual:
  • DBCA Threatened and Priority Flora Resources
  • To help confirm the identity of the sightings to DBCA, please include photos with the DBCA Form where you can – where possible including of the whole plant, close ups of the flower showing the detail and of the surrounding habitat.
  • Any threatened or priority species reported to the WANOSCG Database will be passed on to the WANOSCG/DBCA Adopt an Orchid project (ADORP) as they have dedicated teams studying some of our priority orchids.
• Not all of the fields in these reports have to be completed – just provide whatever information you can.
• Orchid identification, the latest version of the Key to Native Orchids of Western Australia:
  • WANOSCG Key to Native Orchids
• Members can find a summary of the forthcoming field trips in the WANOSCG Bulletin back issues:
  • WANOSCG Members
  • Non-Members