Original EA Amendment

4.4 Fauna results 4.4.1 Conservation significant species

During the desktop analysis, the PMST and Wildlife Online (WO) reports identified 29 conservation significant fauna species that have the potential to occur within the study area based on species’ distributions and/or records (Table 4.6/Appendix A). These species include: – 14 birds – Eight mammals – Seven reptiles Of these 29 conservation significant fauna species, two have been recorded in the study area on the WO database (Table 4.6). No species have been previously recorded within the project area or survey area. The northern quoll has the closest historical record, being located approximately 7 km northeast from the project area. All conservation significant fauna species and the number of records within the study area are summarised in Table 4.6.

Table 4.6

Conservation significant fauna species predicted to occur within the survey area

Scientific name

Common name Conservation status

Source

Records (WO) within the study area

Records (BioMaps) within the study area

NC Act

EPBC Act

Birds Calidris acuminata

Sharp-tailed sandpiper Curlew sandpiper Coxen's fig- parrot Red goshawk

V

V

PMST

0

0

CR

CE

PMST

0

0

Calidris ferruginea

CE

CE

PMST

0

0

Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni Erythrotriorchis radiatus Falco hypoleucos Gallinago hardwickii Geophaps scripta scripta

E

E

PMST

0

0

Grey falcon

V V V

V V V

PMST PMST PMST

0 0 0

0 0 0

Latham's snipe Squatter pigeon (southern) White-throated needletail

V

V

PMST

0

0

Hirundapus caudacutus

Star finch (eastern)

E

E

PMST

0

0

Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda Numenius madagascariensis

Eastern curlew

CR

CE

PMST

0

0

Southern black- throated finch Australian painted snipe

E

E

PMST

1

0

Poephila cincta cincta

E

E

PMST

0

0

Rostratula australis

Common greenshank, greenshank

E

E

PMST

0

0

Tringa nebularia

Black-breasted buttonquail

V

V

PMST

0

0

Turnix melanogaster

Mammals

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