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Mt Owen Complex Annual Fauna Monitoring 2018.0 MT OWEN COMPLEX FAUNA MONITORING 2018 ANNUAL REPORT New nest boxes, MOC Rehabilitation, 2018 Banded Lapwing, Glendell Rehabilitation, 2018 Red-browed Finch, MOC South-east biodiversity offset area Musk Lorikeet, MOC South-east biodiversity offset Rainbow Bee-eater, MOC Stringybark Creek BOA Forest Fauna Surveys Pty Ltd Mt. Owen Complex Fauna Monitoring 2018 MT. OWEN COMPLEX FAUNA MONITORING 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Report prepared for MT. OWEN COMPLEX This report prepared by Michael Murray [B.Sc.(Hons)] Forest Fauna Surveys Pty Ltd 51 Sheridan Avenue ADAMSTOWN HEIGHTS NSW 2289 (02) 4946 2977 [email protected] Acknowledgements. David Currey, Sam Lake and Ned Stephenson (Glencore Mt Owen) and Linda Lunnon and Hubert Mhangami (Thiess Environment Advisors) kindly provided information and assistance with a number of tasks throughout the year. Mike Pereira (Mt Owen Glendell) reviewed the draft report. Document History Document No. Prep. Date Version Checked by Date 00403.a 29.01.2019 Draft v.1 Mike Pereira 18.02.2019 00403.0 25.02.2019 FINAL __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25 February 2019 Forest Fauna Surveys Pty Ltd 00403.0 Page i Mt. Owen Complex Fauna Monitoring 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................................................... i 1.0 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Background ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Prescriptions for Fauna Monitoring ................................................................................................................ 2 1.3 Performance Indicators and Completion Criteria ........................................................................................... 3 2.0 METHODOLOGY ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Birds ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 2.2 Frogs ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Nest Box Installation ....................................................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Habitat Clearing .............................................................................................................................................. 5 2.5 Research Licensing .......................................................................................................................................... 5 3.0 RESULTS .................................................................................................................................................................. 6 3.1 Birds ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 3.2 Frogs ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 3.3 Habitat Enhancement Works .......................................................................................................................... 8 3.3.1 Installation of Nest Boxes .......................................................................................................................... 8 3.3.2 Spotted-tail Quoll Habitat Enhancement ................................................................................................. 14 3.4 Habitat Clearing ............................................................................................................................................ 14 4.0 DISCUSSION .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 5.0 REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 APPENDIX ONE – FAUNA LIST, 1994 – 2018 ....................................................................................................................... 21 APPENDIX TWO – NEST BOX INSTALLATION DATA 2018 ................................................................................................... 34 APPENDIX THREE – SPOTTED-TAIL QUOLL HABITAT ENHANCMENT .................................................................................. 37 APPENDIX FOUR – SUMMARY REPORTS, TREE CLEARING ................................................................................................. 54 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Bird Species Cumulative Total, Mt Owen Complex 1994 – 2018. ................................................................... 6 Figure 2. Monthly Rainfall Comparison 2002 – 2018 ..................................................................................................... 7 Figure 3 Location of Installed Microbat Nest Boxes, Bowmans Creek, Glendell Open Cut ........................................... 8 Figure 4 Location of Installed Nest Boxes, Rehabilitation Area, Glendell Open Cut ..................................................... 9 Figure 5 Location of Installed Nest Boxes, Glendell Habitat Management Zone, Glendell Open Cut ......................... 10 Figure 6 Location of Installed Nest Boxes 2018, Forest East / North East Offsets, Mt Owen Complex ...................... 11 Figure 7 Location of Installed Nest Boxes 2018, Travelling Stock Route / South-east Offsets, Mt Owen Complex .... 12 Figure 8 Location of Installed Nest Boxes 2018, North West Offset, Mt Owen Complex ........................................... 13 Figure 9 Location of Pit C Strip_10 clearing area, Mt Owen Complex ........................................................................ 16 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25 February 2019 Forest Fauna Surveys Pty Ltd 00403.0 Page ii Mt. Owen Complex Fauna Monitoring 2018 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Fauna Monitoring Sites, Mt Owen Complex ................................................................................................... 3 Table 2. Survey Dates for Fauna Surveys / Habitat Improvement Works, Mt Owen Complex, 2018. .......................... 4 Table 3 Nest Boxes installed in 2018 ........................................................................................................................... 8 Table 4 Summary of Habitat Clearing, Mt Owen Complex, 2018 .............................................................................. 15 Table 5 Summary of Fauna recovered during Habitat Clearing, Mt Owen Complex, 2018 ....................................... 15 Table 6 Short Term Performance Indicators (Year 2), Mt Owen Complex, 2018 ....................................................... 17 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25 February 2019 Forest Fauna Surveys Pty Ltd 00403.0 Page iii Mt. Owen Complex Fauna Monitoring 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The fauna monitoring program at the Mt Owen Complex was modified in 2017, to account for the requirements for fauna surveys to be conducted in several new biodiversity offset areas. As a consequence, the fauna monitoring schedule for surveys in 2018 was brought forward in 2017, to account for both the new biodiversity offsets and the Mt Owen Complex. Therefore, in 2018, no comprehensive fauna monitoring surveys at the 9 sites were conducted in the Mt Owen Complex. Rather, the works in 2018 comprised: specific threatened fauna species surveys (winter bird census for Swift Parrot, Regent Honeyeater), an initial frog survey in February 2018 for the endangered Green & Golden Bell Frog, and habitat improvement works. Climatic conditions experienced in 2018 remained very dry with below average rainfall recorded (405mm compared to the 2002-2018 average of 649mm). Several rainfall events were recorded in 2018, but comprised occurred on a limited number of days per month, resulting in extended periods of dry weather. No rainfall events were significant to restore or fill any water bodies at the Mt Owen Complex, resulting in most water bodies being dry since mid 2017. An initial frog survey was conducted in early February 2018. Many water bodies that comprise monitoring sites for frogs were dry, and remained so during 2018. No further monitoring surveys were conducted in 2018 due to absence of water and no presence of active frogs. In 2018, despite most of the works targeting habitat restoration, one new species was detected, the Banded Lapwing. This species is typically associated with drier inland habitats, but many observations of this species were recorded in the Hunter Valley in 2018. Their presence in the Hunter Valley is attributed to the dry conditions inland. The cumulative total for bird species at the Mt Owen Complex is 171 species. No presence of the nationally threatened Swift Parrot and Regent
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