Table 3-10
Migratory fauna species as listed by the EPBC Act predicted to occur within the study area
Scientific name
Common name
Conservation status
Source
Records (WO) with 5 km of the Project
Records (DETSI, 2025) with 5 km of the Project
NC Act EPBC Act
Migratory marine and migratory marine birds
Actitis hypoleucos
Common sandpiper
SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Apus pacificus
Fork-tailed swift SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Crocodylus porosus
Salt-water crocodile, estuarine crocodile
V
Mig
PMST
0
0
Migratory terrestrial
Cuculus optatus
Oriental cuckoo, Horsfield's cuckoo White-throated needletail
SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Hirundapus caudacutus
V
V, Mig
PMST
0
0
Motacilla flava
Yellow wagtail
SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Migratory wetlands
Calidris acuminata
Sharp-tailed sandpiper
V
V, Mig
PMST
0
0
Numenius madagascariensis
Eastern curlew, far eastern curlew
CR
CE, Mig
PMST
0
0
Pandion haliaetus
Osprey
SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Calidris melanotos
Pectoral sandpiper Curlew sandpiper
SL
Mig
PMST
0
0
Calidris ferruginea
CR
Mig
PMST
0
0
Gallinago hardwickii
Latham's snipe, Japanese snipe
V
V, Mig
PMST
0
0
Tringa nebularia
Common greenshank, greenshank
E
E, Mig
PMST
0
0
Key: NL= not listed, SL = special least concern, V = vulnerable, NT = Near threatened, E= Endangered, CR or CE = Critically endangered, Mig = Migratory
3.4.3 Terrestrial fauna values The land within the project area has been subject to legacy gold mining activities including vegetation clearing, mining construction and gold mine processing and discharging of contaminated water into tailings dams that were not constructed in accordance with modern day engineering standards. The land within the project area occurs within a landscape of sheltered gorges in sedimentary rocks which support open forests and eucalypt woodlands, both occurring with open – sparse – moderate canopy cover with a generally sparse shrub layer and a ground layer with native grasses and frequent areas of leaf litter and rocky outcrops. Intermittent native grasses comprised the majority of the layer. The project area contains patches of woodland dominated by Eucalyptus decorticans, Lysicarpus angustifolius and Blakella citriodora. An ephemeral waterbody occurs within Upper Mundic Gully, which has a 200 m + tunnel that was constructed during mining operations that connects Upper Mundic Gully to Dam 8. The tunnel is horse-shoe shaped with a flat bottom, approximately 2.8 m high x 2.1 m wide. Two Anabats have been deployed at the opening of this cave in
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