Attachment 6- Ecology report prepared by Gondwana Ecology

Other species listed under migratory provisions were recorded flying over or in habitats not associated
with the subject land, i.e. white-throated needle-tail (aerial insectivore), rufous fantail and rainbow
bee-eater. The habitat for threatened fauna and an assessment of the likelihood of their occurrence
on the subject land is provided in Table 3. Note that marine and migratory shorebird species excluded.
Table 4. Threatened Fauna Habitat and Likelihood of Occurrence

 Scientific Name             Common Name       Habitat                                            Comments

                                               Found under logs, stones or leaf litter near       Unlikley. No suitable habitat
                                               puddles, creeks and ponds in rainforests,          within development part of
 Adelotus brevis             tusked frog       wet sclerophyll forests and open                   subject land. Possible in drain
                                               grasslands. Breeds in a range of habitats          within open space. One
                                               but preferring rocky substrate.                    record within 5km
                                               Wallum frogs are restricted to freshwater
                                               swamps in lowland coastal areas and found
                                               in associated vegetation communities such
                                               as heath, sedgeland and woodland on
                                               nutrient-poor sandy soils. Acidic swamps
                                                                                                  Unlikely. No suitable habitat
 Crinia tinnula                                and lakes in these areas provide essential
                                                                                                  within subject land. Potential
 Litoria freycineti          wallum frogs      breeding habitat for wallum-dependent
                                                                                                  habitat occurs in paperbark
 Litoria olongburensis                         species. Frogs have also been observed in
                                                                                                  areas to the south/southwest.
                                               disturbed heath habitat. Occurs in lowland
                                               coastal habitats in south-east Queensland
                                               and north-east NSW and on the sand
                                               islands off the QLD coast (Fraser, Bribie,
                                               Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands).
                                                                                                  Unlikely. No areas of feed
                                                                                                  trees within the development
                                               Woodland dominated by Allocasuarina and
                                                                                                  area. No evidence of feeding
                                               in open forests where it forms a substantial
 Calyptorhynchus             glossy black-                                                        activity       (i.e.   chewed
                                               middle layer. Often confined to remnant
 lathami lathami             cockatoo                                                             cones/orts).
                                               Allocasuarina patches surrounded by
                                                                                                  Stands of she-oak in the
                                               cleared farmlands.
                                                                                                  isolated lot to the northeast
                                                                                                  (this lot not developed).
                                               Lives mostly in dense coastal and
                                               subcoastal heathlands, sedgelands and
                                               buttongrass plains, where there is a high
 Pezoporus wallicus                            diversity of low-growing plants. There they        Unlikely. No suitable habitat
                             ground parrot
 wallicus                                      feed on fallen seeds taken from the ground         in the locality.
                                               or plucked directly from the plants as they
                                               walk briskly and agilely through the
                                               vegetation.
                                               It is restricted to coastal and near-coastal
                                               regions of SEQ and north-eastern NSW. It
                                               inhabits drier low closed forests,
                                               particularly semi-evergreen vine thicket,
                                               low microphyll vine forest, araucarian
                                                                                                  Unlikely. No suitable habitat
                                               microphyll vine forest and araucarian
                                                                                                  in the locality. No evidence of
                                               notophyll vine forest. They are also found
                             black-breasted                                                       activity     (species    makes
 Turnix melanogaster                           in low, dense acacia thickets and, in littoral
                             button-quail                                                         characteristic          feeding
                                               areas, in vegetation behind sand dunes.
                                                                                                  platelets). One record within
                                               Leaf-litter in drier rainforests, vine thickets,
                                                                                                  5km
                                               scrubby woodlands of eucalypts, she-oaks,
                                               bottle brushes, brush box, brigalow and
                                               Acacia, thickets of lantana on rainforest
                                               fringes, hoop pine plantations, grain
                                               stubbles.
                                               Species is dependent on coastal, acidic
                                                                                                  Unlikely within development
                                               sedge-heath and paperbark swamps,
 Tenuibranchiurus                                                                                 area as no habitat. Some
                             swamp crayfish    characterised by pools of tannin-stained
 glypticus                                                                                        possibility    (unknown     in
                                               water, and sandy soils covered in organic
                                                                                                  locality) within drainage line
                                               matter. Paperbark swamps and shallow


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