Response to Info Request - Attachment 6b - Ecological Assessment Part 2 MCU18-0015 & RAL18-0001 · MCU18/0015

                                                 Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



      Scientific Name           Common Name                                     Likelihood of Occurring on the Site
                                                         woodlands, mangroves and drier woodland and open forests (Dept. Environment
                                                         2012).
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This species is found in acidic
                                                         freshwater systems running through sandy Banksia dominated heath or wallum
 Nannoperca oxleyana       Oxleyan pygmy perch
                                                         communities, or occasionally creeks that have run out of wallum areas (Dept.
                                                         Environment 2016).
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This wading species is usually
 Numenius                                                associated with estuaries, bays and lagoons where intertidal mud and sandflats
                           Eastern curlew
 madagascariensis
                                                         occur. Occasionally also found on beaches, reefs and rocky islets.
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This species is most often found
                                                         feeding in short, dry grassland and sedgeland, including dry floodplains and
                                                         blacksoil plains, which have scattered, shallow freshwater pools or areas
 Numenius minutus          Little curlew                 seasonally inundated. Open woodlands with a grassy or burnt understorey, dry
                                                         saltmarshes, coastal swamps, mudflats or sandflats of estuaries or beaches on
                                                         sheltered coasts, mown lawns, gardens, recreational areas, ovals, racecourses
                                                         and verges of roads and airstrips are also used (Higgins & Davies 1996).
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This species occurs on intertidal
                                                         mudflats of sheltered coasts. It is also found in harbours, lagoons, estuaries and
                                                         river deltas, often those with mangroves, but also open, unvegetated mudflats.
                                                         It is occasionally found on sandy or rocky beaches, on coral or rocky islets, or on
 Numenius phaeopus         Whimbrel
                                                         intertidal reefs and platforms. It has been infrequently recorded using saline or
                                                         brackish lakes near coastal areas. It also used saltflats with saltmarsh, or saline
                                                         grasslands with standing water left after high spring-tides, and in similar habitats
                                                         in sewage farms and saltfields (Dept. Environment 2012).
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. The Richmond birdwing butterfly
 Ornithoptera richmondia   Richmond birdwing
                                                         lives in subtropical rainforest where its larval host plants grow.
                                                         Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed on site. This species is found in littoral
 Pandion halietus          Osprey
                                                         and coastal habitats around the country, occasionally following large



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