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Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Prepared for Australian Premium Iron Management Pty Ltd FINAL REPORT 26 July 2010 Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Australian Premium Iron Management Pty Ltd Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Final Report Prepared for Australian Premium Iron Management Pty Ltd by Phoenix Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd Authors: Greg Harewood, Karen Crews Reviewer: Melanie White, Stewart Ford Date: 26 July 2010 Submitted to: Michelle Carey © Phoenix Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd 2010. The use of this report is solely for the Client for the purpose in which it was prepared. Phoenix Environmental Sciences accepts no responsibility for use beyond this purpose. All rights are reserved and no part of this publication may be reproduced or copied in any form without the written permission of Phoenix Environmental Sciences or Australian Premium Iron Management. Phoenix Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd 1/511 Wanneroo Road BALCATTA WA 6914 P: 08 9345 1608 F: 08 6313 0680 E: [email protected] Project code: 925-AP-API-FAU Phoenix Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd ii Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Australian Premium Iron Management Pty Ltd TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..........................................................................................................................v 1.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Scope of work and survey objectives........................................................................................ 4 1.3 Existing environment ................................................................................................................. 4 1.3.1 Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA) Region ................................... 4 1.3.2 Land Systems .................................................................................................................... 5 1.3.3 Climate ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 Previous surveys ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.4.1 Flora and vegetation .......................................................................................................... 6 1.4.2 Vertebrate fauna ................................................................................................................ 6 2.0 METHODOLOGY ......................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Consultation .............................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Database searches ................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Habitat assessment and site selection...................................................................................... 7 2.4 Field methodology ................................................................................................................... 15 2.4.1 Trapping for ground-dwelling mammals, reptiles and amphibians .................................. 17 2.4.2 Avifauna censusing .......................................................................................................... 18 2.4.3 Bats .................................................................................................................................. 18 2.4.4 Spotlighting ...................................................................................................................... 18 2.4.5 Targeted searches for Lerista nevinae ............................................................................ 19 2.4.6 Targeted searches for Eastern Osprey and White-bellied Sea-Eagle nests ................... 19 2.4.7 Opportunistic records ....................................................................................................... 19 2.4.8 Excluded fauna ................................................................................................................ 19 2.5 Taxonomy and nomenclature ................................................................................................. 20 3.0 RESULTS ................................................................................................................................... 22 3.1 Desktop study ......................................................................................................................... 22 3.2 Summary of fauna records ...................................................................................................... 23 3.3 Amphibians ............................................................................................................................. 23 3.4 Birds ........................................................................................................................................ 23 3.5 Mammals ................................................................................................................................. 24 3.6 Reptiles ................................................................................................................................... 25 3.7 Survey Limitations ................................................................................................................... 25 4.0 CONSERVATION SIGNIFICANCE ............................................................................................ 27 4.1 Legislation and agreements for the protection of significant fauna in Western Australia ....... 27 4.2 Species of conservation significance ...................................................................................... 28 4.2.1 Significant species recorded in the surveys .................................................................... 28 4.2.2 Migratory listed avifauna .................................................................................................. 31 4.2.3 Other significant species identified as potentially occurring ............................................ 35 4.3 Fauna habitats of conservation significance ........................................................................... 38 5.0 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................... 42 6.0 Appendix 1: Migratory birds identified as occurring or potentially occurring in the study area through database searches ................................................................................................................... 45 7.0 Appendix 2: Full list of species obtained from general database searches and relevant previous reports .................................................................................................................................................... 47 Phoenix Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd iii Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey for Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects Australian Premium Iron Management Pty Ltd 8.0 Appendix 3: Species recorded from each site during the surveys ............................................. 60 9.0 Appendix 4: Analysis of bat call recordings ................................................................................ 65 LIST OF TABLES Table 0-1 Conservation significant vertebrate fauna summarya. ..................................................... vi Table 2-1 Habitat descriptionsa and photos of the Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects fauna survey sites. ............................................................................................................ 8 Table 2-2 Summary of trapping effort and location of trapping sites. ............................................ 21 Table 3-1 Threatened & Priority species identified during the desktop studies as occurring or potentially occurring in the study area. ........................................................................... 22 Table 3-2 Number of species recorded from each group during the surveys and percentage of potentially occurring species. ......................................................................................... 23 Table 3-3 Results of targeted survey for Eastern Osprey and White-bellied Sea-Eagle nest sites.24 Table 3-4 Survey limitations. .......................................................................................................... 25 Table 4-1 Conservation significant species recorded during the surveys. ..................................... 28 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1-1 Location of the Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects. ..................................... 2 Figure 1-2 Anketell Point Rail Alignment (northern portion only) and Port conceptual layout and study area. ........................................................................................................................ 3 Figure 2-1 Location of Anketell Point Rail Alignment and Port Projects fauna trapping sites and Lerista nevinae targeted search sites. ...........................................................................
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