UPDATED DA - Attachment 8 - Flora and Fauna Assessment

                                                                                                                                                      Native Foresters



4.5       Likelihood of occurrence of listed threatened species

Table 6 provides an analysis of the potential presence of threatened species as listed in WildNet, RVMM, MSES and/or the
EPBC Protected Matters Search Tool or based on the field assessment and local knowledge of which species may occur within
the area. The criteria used to assign a likelihood rating to each species are defined in section 3.5.

This assessment is important in determining fauna species that may be in the area but whose presence was not detected.

TABLE 6: Breeding habitat assessment and likelihood of occurrence for listed or likely to occur species

                                                                                                                                        LIKELIHOOD         PRESENCE OF
 SCIENTIFIC NAME         COMMON                         EPBC
                                            NC ACT                ECOLOGY & BREEDING HABITAT                                                OF              BREEDING
                         NAME                            ACT
                                                                                                                                        OCCURENCE            PLACES
 THREATENED FAUNA
 BIRDS
                                                                  Species prefers woodlands dominated by she-oak or open
 Calyptorhynchus         Glossy black                             sclerophyll forests with a stratum of she-oak. It feeds exclusively
                                               V          V                                                                                Possible           Absent
 lathami subsp lathami   cockatoo                                 upon she-oak seeds and nests in large hollows in large old trees,
                                                                  usually Eucalypts.
                                                                  Non-breeding migrant present in Australia from October to              Unlikely during
 Hirundapus              White-throated                           March. The species is almost exclusively aerial and is often seen      winter survey,
                                               V          V                                                                                                   Absent
 caudacutus              needletail                               foraging above a variety of habitats, often seen in numbers in        possible during
                                                                  warm, humid air ahead of storm fronts.                                summer survey.
 AMPHIBIANS
                                                                  Habitat specialist requires ephemeral, acidic, wallum wetland but
                                                                  tolerant of disturbance. Also Inhabits paperbark (Melaleuca)
 Crinia tinnula          Wallum froglet        V           -                                                                               Possible          Possible
                                                                  swamps and sedgeland. Breeds all seasons after rain, calling
                                                                  night and day (DAWE, 2023, and references therein).
                                                                  Habitat specialist requires ephemeral, acidic, wallum wetland
                         Wallum                                   with emergent aquatic vegetation, but somewhat tolerant of
 Litoria freycineti                            V           -                                                                               Possible          Possible
                         rocketfrog                               disturbance. Breed spring and summer after rain (DAWE, 2023,
                                                                  and references therein).




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