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
                                                     seagrass) in sheltered areas including harbours, estuaries and lagoons, and also
                                                     in evaporation ponds in saltworks. The species is also sometimes recorded on
                                                     islands, sand and coral cays and exposed reefs and rocks. They are less often
                                                     recorded in terrestrial habitats, usually wetlands such as fresh, brackish or saline
                                                     lakes, billabongs, pools, swamps and wet claypans, especially those with muddy
                                                     margins and often with submerged vegetation or short emergent grass. Other
                                                     terrestrial habitats inhabited include short (or, occasionally, long) grass in
                                                     paddocks, crops or airstrips, or ploughed or recently burnt areas, and they are
                                                     very occasionally recorded well away from water (Dept. Environment 2012).
                                                     Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. This species occurs almost
                                                     entirely in coastal areas, where they usually inhabit sheltered embayments,
                                                     estuaries and lagoons with mudflats and sandflats, and occasionally on rocky
                                                     coasts with wave-cut platforms or reef-flats, or on reefs within muddy lagoons.
 Pluvialis squatarola     Grey plover
                                                     They also occur around terrestrial wetlands such as near-coastal lakes and
                                                     swamps, or salt-lakes. The species is also very occasionally recorded further
                                                     inland, where they occur around wetlands or salt-lakes (Dept. Environment
                                                     2012).
                                                     Unlikely: Suitable habitat not observed onsite. The black-throated finch
                                                     (southern) occurs at two general locations: in the Townsville region and at
                                                     scattered sites in central-eastern Queensland (between Aramac and Great Basalt
                                                     Wall National Park). This species occurs mainly in grassy, open woodlands and
                                                     forests, typically dominated by Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Melaleuca, and
                          Southern    black-throated occasionally in tussock grasslands or other habitats (for example freshwater
 Poephila cincta cincta
                          finch                      wetlands), often along or near watercourses, or in the vicinity of water. The
                                                     species is thought to require a mosaic of different habitats in which it can find
                                                     seed during the wet season. Some of the more common species of eucalypts in
                                                     woodlands and forests frequented by the subspecies include Narrow-leaved
                                                     Ironbark (E. crebra), River Red Gum (E. camaldulensis), Silver-leaved Ironbark
                                                     (E. melanophloia), Reid River Box (E. brownii), Yellowjacket (E. similis) and


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