Attachment 4 - Terrestrial Ecology Report_RACV_2022 June

                                                Table 7. Assessment of other threatened species considered unlikely to occur in subject land

 Common Name                      Records     Habitat                                                                                                                                Comment
 Eastern Curlew                   Records
                                              Shorebird/wader species frequenting sandflats, mudflats, tidal areas.                                                                  Unlikely – no suitable habitat.
 Numenius madagascarensis          < 5km
 Coxen’s Fig Parrot                           In Queensland, the most reliable records are from Imbil, Kin Creek, Upper Pinbarren Creek, Montville, Maleny, Mount Glorious,
                                  0 records
 Cyclopsitta diopthalma             < 5km
                                              Main Range National Park and Lamington National Park. The species occurs in rainforest habitats including subtropical                  Unlikely – no suitable habitat.
 coxeni                                       rainforest, dry rainforest, littoral and developing littoral rainforest, and vine forest with figs and soft fruiting trees.
                                                                                                                                                                                     Unlikely - however, this is a
                                              This parrot is endemic to south-eastern Australia and breeds in Tasmania, migrating to mainland Australia in autumn. Recent            nomadic species with occasional
 Swift Parrot                     0 records
                                    < 5km
                                              records from southern Queensland have come from the Gold Coast, Noosa, Toowoomba, Warwick and Lockyer Valley areas.                    records from SEQ. This species
 Lathamus discolor                            Narrow-leaved red ironbark, Forest red gum forests and Yellow box forest are commonly utilized.                                        could be recorded in any flowering
                                                                                                                                                                                     eucalypt.
                                              The distribution of this microbat is poorly known. Records exist from Shoalwater Bay, north of Rockhampton, Queensland,
                                              through to the vicinity of Ulladulla, NSW in the south. Sandstone cliffs and fertile woodland valley habitat within close              Unlikely – although some eucalypt
 Large-eared Pied Bat             0 records
                                              proximity of each other is habitat of importance to the species. Records from south-east Queensland suggest that rainforest            forest/habitat occurs, not
 Chalinolobus dwyeri                < 5km
                                              and moist eucalypt forest habitats on other geological substrates (rhyolite, trachyte and basalt) at high elevation are of similar     considered suitable habitat.
                                              importance.
                                              The Potoroo (SE mainland population) has scattered populations extending from south-eastern Queensland through to NSW.
                                              The species has been recorded at Many Peaks Range, south-east of Gladstone, Bellthorpe near Beerwah and in the Border                  Unlikely – although dense wet
 Long-nosed Potoroo               0 records
                                              Ranges. There is no consistent pattern to the habitat of the Long-nosed potoroo; it can be found in wet eucalypt forests to            habitats occur to the immediate
 Potorous tridactylus               < 5km
                                              coastal heaths and scrubs. The main factors would appear to be access to some form of dense vegetation for shelter and the             north.
                                              presence of an abundant supply of fungi.
                                              This skink occurs from Crescent Head in north-east NSW to Fraser Island in south-east Queensland. It is found in loose, well
 Three-toed Snake-tooth
                                  0 records   mulched friable soil, in and under rotting logs, in forest litter, under fallen hoop pine bark and under decomposing cane mulch.       Unlikely – although dense habitat
 Skink Coeranoscincus               < 5km     It has been recorded in rainforest, closed forest, wet sclerophyll forest, tall open Blackbutt forest, tall layered open eucalypt      occurs to the north.
 (Saiphos) reticulatus                        forest and closed Brush box forest.
                                              The species has been recorded from the Bunya Mountains; Blackdown Tablelands National Park; Expedition National Park;
 Collared delma                   0 records   Western Creek near Millmerran; and the Toowoomba Range. A large concentration of records also occurs from the western
                                    < 5km     suburbs of Brisbane. The delma normally inhabits eucalypt-dominated woodlands and open-forests in Queensland on Land
                                                                                                                                                                                     Unlikely – no suitable habitat.
 Delma torquata
                                              Zones 3 - alluvium; 9 - undulating country on fine-grained sedimentary rocks; 10 - sandstone ranges.
                                              The Greater Glider is an arboreal marsupial, largely restricted to eucalypt forests and woodlands. It is primarily folivorous, with
                                                                                                                                                                                     Unlikely – although large eucalypt
 Greater Glider                   0 records   a diet mostly comprising eucalypt leaves, and occasionally flowers. The greater glider is restricted to eastern Australia, occurring
                                                                                                                                                                                     trees occur on the subject land, not
 Petauroides volans                 < 5km     from the Windsor Tableland in north Queensland through to central Victoria (Wombat State Forest), with an elevational range
                                              from sea level to 1200 m above sea level.                                                                                              considered suitable habitat.
                                              In Queensland, the Regent honeyeater has been recorded from 15 sites, primarily south of a line between Chinchilla and the             Unlikely - however, this is a
                                              Sunshine Coast. They mostly occur in dry Box-Ironbark eucalypt woodland and dry sclerophyll forest associations in areas of low        nomadic species with occasional
 Regent Honeyeater                0 records
                                    < 5km
                                              to moderate relief, wherein they prefer moister, more fertile sites available, e.g. along creek flats, or in broad river valleys and   records from SEQ. This species
 Anthochaera phrygia                          foothills. They regularly occur in remnant trees or patches of woodland in farmland, partly cleared agricultural land and riverine     could be recorded in any flowering
                                              forest of River oak, usually infested by mistletoe, and sometimes mixed with eucalypts.                                                eucalypt.
                                              This species occurs on open, undisturbed beaches, islands, reefs, and estuarine intertidal sand and mudflats, preferring beaches
 beach stone-curlew               Records     with estuaries or mangroves nearby. forages on large intertidal mudflats, sandflats, sandbanks and sandpits exposed by low tide
                                   < 5km      for crabs and other marine invertebrates with nesting on sandbanks, sandpits, or islands in estuaries, coral ridges, among
                                                                                                                                                                                     Unlikely – no suitable habitat.
 Esacus magnirostris
                                              mangroves or in the sand surrounded by short grass and scattered casuarinas.




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