08/0169 - Response to Information Request [As Published] · 132008.169

Seaview Terrace, Ecology Report

Table 1: EPBC Protected Matters Search 1.5km surrounding the site.

 

Scientific Name

Common Name

EPBC
Status

Habitat Requirements

 

BIRDS

 

Cyciopsitta diophthalma coxeni

Coxen's Fig-Parrot

E

Its preferred habitat was probably lowland
dry and subtropical rainforest, especially in
alluvial areas, however little of this remains.
Recent records are from dry or cool
subtropical rainforest from sea level to
approximately 900m. Birds also use thin
strips of gallery rainforest; littoral rainforest
and coastal eucalypt/melaleuca forest where
fig densities are high (e.g. near Bundaberg).
The species has been reported visiting
isolated fruiting trees in gardens and
cultivated farmlands (Environmental
Protection Agency, 2008),

 

Erythrotriorchis radiatus

Red Goshawk

The red goshawk has an enormous home
range covering between 50 and 220 square
kilometres. It prefers a mix of vegetation
types with its habitat including tall open
forest, woodland, lightly treed savannah and
the edge of rainforest (Environmental
Protection Agency, 2008).

 

Anthochaera phrygia

Regent honeyeater

Regent Honeyeaters occur mainty in dry box
ironbark open-forest and woodland areas
inland of the Great Dividing Range,
particularly favouring those on the wettest,
most fertile soils, such as along creek flats
and broad river valleys. They spend much of
their time feeding on the nectar from
eucalypts such as the Mugga Ironbark,
White Box and Yellow Box, and Blakeley's
Red Gum on which they are reliant. Listed
as nationally endangered, the total known
population of Regent Honeyeaters is
estimated at between 800 and 2000
(DEWHA, 2007)

 

Lathamus discolor

Swift Parrot

Nomadic visitor to sclerophy!! forests and
woodlands where trees are in blossom.
From SE Qid to Mt Lofty Ranges, SA (Slater
et al., 1992)

 

Rostratula australis

Australian Painted Snipe

Nomad in marshes especially in north and
eastern Australia. (Slater et af, 1992)

 

Tumix melanogaster

Black-breasted Button-
quail

BBBQ inhabit a range of vegetation
communities but are more commonly
associated with fragments of vine forest and
thickets that are periodically water-stressed
and coastal scrubs. The species may also
be found in low thickets or woodlands,
acacia thickets, Lantana camara patches (in
association with these vegetation types) and
wetter subtropical rainforest in NSW. BBBQ
have also been regularly observed within
hoop pine plantations (Environmental
Protection Agency, 2008).

 

Macronectes giganteus

Southern Giant-petrel

A large seabird. Common visitor to southem
waters including coastal southeast
Queensland (Slater et a/., 1989).

 

Macronectes halli

Northern Giant-petrel

A large seabird. Uncommon visitor to
southem waters north to the tropics (Slater
et al., 1989).

 

Pterodroma neglecta neglecta

Kermadec Petrel
(western)

Rare vagrant to central east coast possibly
from breeding areas of Lord Howe Island or
Kermadec Island, NZ (Slater et a/., 1989).

 

Thalassarche melanophris impavida

 

 

Campbell Albatross

 

 

Campbell Albatrosses occur in Antarctic and
sub-Antarctic waters and in the subtropical
South Pacific Ocean. They breed only on
sub-Antarctic Campbell Island, south of New
Zealand. Throughout the breeding season,
breeding adults are generally found over the
shelf waters surrounding New Zealand,

 

Chenoweth EPLA

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Mar ‘09