2020-07-16-sm-agenda-item-1-attachment-5-final-noosa-plan-2020-part-8-10-schedules-appendix

  Survey Technique                         Methods                                        Minimum Duration
                                           handling marsupials with advanced pouch
                                           young which are prone to ejecting young
                                           when under stress.
                                           Lactating females may also need to return
                                           to feed young.
   Wire Cage (possum) and Arboreal Traps    One wire cage trap per site open for four     Four nights
                                           nights and up to 5 platform mounted
                                           arboreal traps which are secured to
                                           selected trees.

                                           AE consideration ­ Cage traps should be
                                           covered to reduce stress to captured
                                           animals.
  Bird Surveys                             Six 5­10 minute area searches within 100 x     1hr/day and night
                                           100 metre survey site or a transect search
                                           where 100m transect is walked with 5­10
                                           minutes spent at each transect. Birds are
                                           recorded indicating method of identification
                                           (ie call or visual observation). Surveys are
                                           conducted for 1 hour from dawn to early
                                           morning, 1 hour at dusk to early evening
                                           and 1 hour during night for nocturnal
                                           species.
  Call Playback                            This technique uses call playback to         1­2 nights
                                           determine the presence of species that may
                                           be difficult to detect visually (eg owls and
                                           frogs).
                                           For amphibians – Two sessions of call
                                           playback to simulate calling activity of
                                           breeding males. Usually crepuscular survey
                                           carried out for 15­30 minutes over 1­2
                                           nights.

                                           AE consideration ­ Overuse of mimicry calls
                                           should be avoided
  Ultrasonic bat Call Detectors             Echolocation call detectors that record the 3­4 nights
                                           ultrasonic calls of microchiropteran bats
                                           should be deployed over 3­4 nights and
                                           programmed to record continuously from
                                           sunset to sunrise. Detectors should be
                                           placed on the edge of fly­ways through
                                           vegetation, approximately 1­1.5m above
                                           ground level. Data can be recorded in full
                                           spectrum or memory efficient zero crossing
                                           formats depending on level of analysis
                                           required. The call sonograms are
                                           compared with those of reference calls from
                                           southern Queensland and/or with published
                                           call descriptions (Reinhold et al. 2001;
                                           Pennay et al. 2004) using a range of
                                           acoustic analysis software. Reporting
                                           should follow the Australasian Bat Society
                                           standards for the interpretation and
                                           reporting of bat call data (Reardon 2003).
                                           Species nomenclature should follow van
                                           Dyck et al. (2013) unless otherwise
                                           specified.


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