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 species typically prefers sheltered
                                                                                          coastal habitats, with large intertidal mudflats or sandflats.
                                                                                          This includes inlets, bays, harbours, estuaries and lagoons.
                                                                                          They are occasionally found on exposed reefs or rock
         Calidris tenuirostris                   Great Knot            SL      M, MA                                                                               Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                          platforms, shorelines with mangrove vegetation, ponds in
                                                                                          saltworks, at swamps near the coast, saltlakes and non-
                                                                                          tidal lagoons. The Great Knot rarely occurs on inland lakes
                                                                                          and swamps



                                                                                          Eucalypt woodlands and forests in which there is a sub-
                                                                                          canopy or understorey of casuarinas
         Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami    Glossy Black-Cockatoo      V          -                                                                                Probable                5 km
                                                                                          Allocasuarina/Casuarina. Preferred species is Allocasurina
                                                                                          Litoralis

                                                                                          In the non-breeding grounds in Australasia, the species is
         Charadrius leschenaultii            Greater Sand Plover       SL      M, MA                                                                               Unlikley
                                                                                          almost entirely coastal, inhabiting littoral and estuarine
                                                                                          In non-breeding grounds in Australia, this species usually
                                                                                          occurs in coastal littoral and estuarine environments. It
                                                                                          inhabits large intertidal sandflats or mudflats in sheltered
         Charadrius mongolus                 Lesser Sand Plover        SL      M, MA                                                                               Unlikley
                                                                                          bays, harbours and estuaries, and occasionally sandy
                                                                                          ocean beaches, coral reefs, wave-cut rock platforms and
                                                                                          rocky outcrops.
                                                                                          The Double-banded Plover is found on littoral, estuarine
                                                                                          and fresh or saline terrestrial wetlands and also saltmarsh,
                                                                                          grasslands and pasture. It occurs on muddy, sandy,
                                             Double-banded Sand
         Charadrius bicinctus                                          SL      M. MA      shingled or sometimes rocky beaches, bays and inlets,                    Unlikley
                                                   Plover
                                                                                          harbours and margins of fresh or saline terrestrial wetlands
                                                                                          such as lakes, lagoons and swamps, shallow estuaries and
                                                                                          rivers.
                                                                                          In Australia, and elsewhere in their non-breeding range, the
                                                                                          species mostly inhabits fresh, brackish or saline, and
                                                                                          coastal or subcoastal wetlands. White-winged Black Terns
                                                                                          frequent tidal wetlands, such as harbours, bays, estuaries
         Chlidonias leucopterus            White-Winged Black Tern     SL         -                                                                                Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                          and lagoons, and their associated tidal sandflats and
                                                                                          mudflats. Terrestrial wetlands, including swamps, lakes,
                                                                                          billabongs, rivers, floodplains, reservoirs, saltworks,
                                                                                          sewage ponds and outfalls are also inhabited. Wetlands




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