Arboricultural Report from STP24-0253 Application for Operational Works Fire Trail - 80 Cooyar Street Noosa Heads · OPW24/0118

Fauna Management Plan v1                                                                           NCES REF: J001259
Lot 9 on RP225312 – 100 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads




 Previously Recorded               Preferred Habitat                        Habitat Value within the Site
 Fauna Species

 Charadrius mongolus               Usually occurs in coastal littoral and   Nil – no suitable habitat onsite.
 (lesser sand plover) – listed     estuarine environments. It inhabits
 as ‘endangered’ under the         large intertidal sandflats or mudflats
 NC and EPBC Act;                  in sheltered bays, harbours and
                                   estuaries, and occasionally sandy
                                   ocean beaches, coral reefs, wave-
                                   cut rock platforms and rocky
                                   outcrops. It also sometime occurs in
                                   short     saltmarsh      or    among
                                   mangroves. The species also
                                   inhabits saltworks and near-coastal
                                   saltpans, brackish swamps and
                                   sandy or silt islands in river beds
                                   (Marchant & Higgins 1993)

 Crinia tinnula (wallum            Inhabits acid paperbark (Melaleuca)      Potential seasonal habitat within the




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 froglet) – listed as              swamps, sedgelands and drainage          VC1 unit in the northern site extent.
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC         lines in wet heath. Also found in        Optimal habitat present off-site to the
 Act;                              disturbed wallum habitat, such as        east.
                                   exotic pine plantations, quarry site,
                                   recently burnt heathland, 4WD-
                                   impacted areas and roadsides
                                   (Queensland Government 2019).

 Erythrotriorchis radiatus         Occurs in coastal and sub-coastal        Unlikely to occur within the site.
 (red goshawk) – listed as         areas in wooded and forested lands
 ‘endangered’ under the NC         of tropical and warm-temperate
 Act and ‘vulnerable’ under        Australia (Marchant & Higgins
 the EPBC Act;                     1993).

 Esacus magnirostris (beach        Found exclusively along the coast,       Nil – no suitable habitat onsite.
 stone-curlew) – listed as         on a wide range of beaches, islands,
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC         reefs and in estuaries, and may
 Act;                              often be seen at the edges of or near
                                   mangroves. They forage in the
                                   intertidal zone of beaches and
                                   estuaries, on islands, flats, banks
                                   and spits of sand, mud, gravel or
                                   rock, and among mangroves (NSW
                                   OEH 2020).

 Hirundapus caudacutus             A migratory aerial bird which winters    Not considered important to the
 (white-throated needletail)       in Australia. It forages on flying       species.
 – listed as ‘vulnerable’          insects in forests shrublands and
 under the NC Act and              grasslands on the east and north
 EPBC Act                          coast of Australia and roosts in trees
                                   (DES, 2020).

 Limosa lapponica baueri           Coastal habitats such      as   large    Nil – no suitable habitat onsite.
 (Western Alaskan bar-tailed       intertidal sandflats, banks, mudflats,
 godwit) – is listed as            estuaries, inlets, harbours, coastal
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC         lagoons and bays.
 Act and EPBC Act;

 Litoria freycineti (Wallum        Freshwater       wetlands        and     Potential habitat within the VC1 unit
 rocketfrog) - listed as           associated vegetation communities        in the northern site extent.
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC         occurring on low nutrient sandy soils
 Act




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