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**


                                                                                     The Wandering Tattler is generally found on rocky coasts
                                                                                     with reefs and platforms, points, spits, piers, offshore
                                                                                     islands and shingle beaches or beds. It is occasionally
                                                                                     seen on coral reefs or beaches, and tends to avoid
         Tringa incana                   Wandering Tattler        SL      M, MA      mudflats (Higgins & Davies 1996). Foraging habitat is                    Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                     among rocks or shingle, or in shallow pools at edges of
                                                                                     reefs or beaches, mainly along the tideline. Wandering
                                                                                     Tattlers have been recorded roosting or perching on top of
                                                                                     boulders surrounded by or close to water

                                                                                     Wide variety of inland wetlands and sheltered coastal
                                                                                     habitats of varying salinity. It occurs in sheltered coastal
                                                                                     habitats, typically with large mudflats and saltmarsh,
                                                                                     mangroves or seagrass. Habitats include embayments,
                                                                                     harbours, river estuaries, deltas and lagoons and are
         Tringa nebularia              Common Greenshank          SL      M, MA                                                                               Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                     recorded less often in round tidal pools, rock-flats and rock
                                                                                     platforms. The species uses both permanent and
                                                                                     ephemeral terrestrial wetlands, including swamps, lakes,
                                                                                     dams, rivers, creeks, billabongs, waterholes and inundated
                                                                                     floodplains, claypans and saltflats
                                                                                     The Marsh Sandpiper lives in permanent or ephemeral
                                                                                     wetlands of varying salinity, including swamps, lagoons,
         Tringa stagnatilis              Marsh Sandpiper          SL      M, MA      billabongs, saltpans, saltmarshes, estuaries, pools on                   Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                     inundated floodplains, and intertidal mudflats and also
                                                                                     regularly at sewage farms and saltworks.
                                                                                     Drier low closed forest, particularly semi-evergreen vine
                                       Black-breasted Button-
         Turnix melanogaster                                      V          V       thicket, low vine forest, Araucaria notophyll vine forest with           Unlikley                5 km
                                                quail
                                                                                     deep leaf litter and Lantana thickets.
                                                                                     The Terek Sandpiper mostly forages in the open, on soft
                                                                                     wet intertidal mudflats or in sheltered estuaries,
         Xenus cinereus                   Terek Sandpiper         SL      M, MA      embayments, harbours or lagoons. The species has also                    Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                     been recorded on islets, mudbanks, sandbanks and spits,
                                                                                     and near mangroves and occasionally in samphire
         Crustaceans
                                                                                     Paperbark swamps and shallow drainage channels. Prefers
                                                                                     to burrow into damp clay but is occasionally found in peaty
         Tenuibranchiurus glypticus       Swamp Crayfish          E          -                                                                                Unlikley                5 km
                                                                                     sand. Woodgate, Qld, south to at least southern Brisbane
                                                                                     area
         Insects




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