Attachment 3b - Ecological Assessment Report v2- 111 Lake Weyba Drive, NOOSAVILLE

Ecological Assessment Report v2                                                                    NCES Ref: J000618
Lot 4 RP36729 – 111 Lake Weyba Drive, Noosaville




 Previously Recorded                Preferred Habitat                        Habitat Value within the Site
 Fauna Species
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC
 Act and the EPBC Act;

 Numenius                           Occupies coastal lakes, inlets, bays     Unlikely to occur. May occur on banks
 madagascariensis (eastern          and estuarine habitats. Species is       of Lake Weyba.
 curlew) – listed as                mainly found in intertidal mudflats
 ‘endangered’ under the NC          and sometimes saltmarsh
 Act and ‘critically
 endangered’ under the
 EPBC Act;

 Pezoporus wallicus wallicus        Coastal heathland or sedgeland with      Unlikely
 (ground parrot) – listed as        very dense cover and a high density
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC          of the parrot's food plants (DES,
 Act;                               2020).

 Pteropus poliocephalus             The Grey-headed Flying-fox is a          Potential foraging and breeding
 (grey-headed flying-fox) –         canopy-feeding       frugivore    and    habitat within the vegetated areas of
 listed as ‘vulnerable’ under       nectarivore, utilising rainforests,      the site.
 the EPBC Act.                      open forests, closed and open
                                    woodlands, Melaleuca swamps and
                                    Banksia woodlands. The primary
                                    food source is blossom from
                                    Eucalyptus and related genera but
                                    in some areas it also utilises a wide
                                    range of rainforest fruits (Eby 1998).

 Phascolarctos cinereus             Forest and woodlands with           a    Potential foraging and breeding
 (koala) – listed as                dominance of koala food trees.           habitat within the vegetated areas of
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC                                                   the site.
 Act and the EPBC Act

 Rostratula australis               Prefers fringes of swamps, dams          Unlikely to occur. May occur on banks
 (Australian painted snipe) -       and nearby marshy areas where            of Lake Weyba.
 listed as ‘endangered’             there is a cover of grasses, lignum,
 under the NC Act and the           low scrub or open timber
 EPBC Act;

The field investigations did not incidentally identify the presence of any conservation significant fauna
species previously recorded on Wildlife Online and identified in Table 1.




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