Attachment 6 - Ecological Assessment.pdf

                                             Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



     Scientific Name         Common Name                                    Likelihood of Occurring on the Site
                                                     delegatensis), Blackbutt (E. pilularis) or Red Mahogany (E. resinifera); usually
                                                     with a dense shrubby understorey often including ferns. They also occur in
                                                     subtropical and temperate rainforests; for example near Bega in south-east
                                                     NSW, where they are recorded in temperate Lilly Pilly (Acmena smithi)
                                                     rainforest, with Grey Myrtle (Backhousia myrtifolia), Sassafras (Doryphora
                                                     sassafras) and Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum) subdominants. They
                                                     occasionally occur in secondary regrowth, following logging or disturbance in
                                                     forests or rainforests. When on passage, they are sometimes recorded in drier
                                                     sclerophyll forests and woodlands, including Spotted Gum (Eucalyptus
                                                     maculata), Yellow Box (E. melliodora), ironbarks or stringybarks, often with a
                                                     shrubby or heath understorey. They are also recorded from parks and gardens
                                                     when on passage. In north and north-east Australia, they often occur in tropical
                                                     rainforest and monsoon rainforests, including semi-evergreen mesophyll vine
                                                     forests, semi-deciduous vine thickets or thickets of Paperbarks (Melaleuca spp.)
                                                     (Dept. Environment 2016).
                                                     Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This species inhabits shallow
                                                     terrestrial freshwater (occasionally brackish) wetlands, including temporary and
                                                     permanent lakes, swamps and claypans. They also use inundated or waterlogged
                                                     grassland or saltmarsh, dams, rice crops, sewage farms and bore drains. Typical
                                                     sites include those with rank emergent tussocks of grass, sedges, rushes or
                                                     reeds, or samphire; often with scattered clumps of lignum Muehlenbeckia or
                                                     canegrass or sometimes tea-tree (Melaleuca). The species sometimes utilises
Rostratula australis   Australian painted snipe
                                                     areas that are lined with trees, or that have some scattered fallen or washed-up
                                                     timber. Breeding habitat requirements may be quite specific: shallow wetlands
                                                     with areas of bare wet mud and both upper and canopy cover nearby. Nest
                                                     records are all, or nearly all, from or near small islands in freshwater wetlands ,
                                                     provided that these islands are a combination of very shallow water, exposed
                                                     mud, dense low cover and sometimes some tall dense cover (Dept. Environment
                                                     2012).


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