Ecological Assessment Report

J000206-002-R-Rev1                                                                                                                                                                         June 2016




                                                                      EPBC
                                                           NC Act                                                                              Potential to occur in the    Recorded
                      Scientific Name   Common Name                    Act                              Habitat***
                                                           Status*                                                                                  project area           Sightings****
                                                                     Status**

                                                                                In Australasia the Red Knot mainly inhabit intertidal
                                                                                mudflats, sandflats and sandy beaches of sheltered
                                                                                coasts, in estuaries, bays, inlets, lagoons and harbours;
                                                                                sometimes on sandy ocean beaches or shallow pools on
                                                                                exposed wave-cut rock platforms or coral reefs. They are
         Calidris canutus                  Red Knot          SL      M, MA                                                                             Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                occasionally seen on terrestrial saline wetlands near the
                                                                                coast, such as lakes, lagoons, pools and pans, and
                                                                                recorded on sewage ponds and saltworks, but rarely use
                                                                                freshwater swamps. They rarely use inland lakes or
                                                                                swamps

                                                                            Mainly occur on intertidal mudflats in sheltered coastal
                                                                            areas, such as estuaries, bays, inlets and lagoons, and
                                                                            also around non-tidal swamps, lakes and lagoons near the
                                                                     CE, M, coast, and ponds in saltworks and sewage farms. They are
         Calidris ferruginea            Curlew Sandpiper     SL                                                                                        Unlikley                5 km
                                                                      MA    also recorded inland, though less often, including around
                                                                            ephemeral and permanent lakes, dams, waterholes and
                                                                            bore drains, usually with bare edges of mud or sand. They
                                                                            occur in both fresh and brackish waters.



                                                                                In Australasia, the Red-necked Stint is mostly found in
                                                                                coastal areas, including in sheltered inlets, bays, lagoons
                                                                                and estuaries with intertidal mudflats, often near spits,
                                                                                islets and banks and, sometimes, on protected sandy or
                                                                                coralline shores. Occasionally they have been recorded on
                                                                                exposed or ocean beaches, and sometimes on stony or
                                                                                rocky shores, reefs or shoals. They also occur in saltworks
         Calidris ruficollis            Red-necked Stint     SL      M, MA                                                                             Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                and sewage farms; saltmarsh; ephemeral or permanent
                                                                                shallow wetlands near the coast or inland, including
                                                                                lagoons, lakes, swamps, riverbanks, waterholes, bore
                                                                                drains, dams, soaks and pools in saltflats. They sometimes
                                                                                use flooded paddocks or damp grasslands. They have
                                                                                occasionally been recorded on dry gibber plains, with little
                                                                                or no perennial vegetation




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