Bird & Bat Surveys for Windfarms in New South Wales

Land Eco Consulting provide Ecologist and Zoologist (Ornithologist and Chiropterologist) consulting services to Wind Farm and Renewable Energy clients across Australia.

We perform impact assessment and monitoring surveys for a wide range of rare/threatened bird/avifauna and bat species for windfarm and other renewable energy project compliance.

Land Eco Consulting provide bird sound / call identification and forensic analysis (bone, feather carcass) services for clients including consultancies and industry across Australia.

Land Eco Consulting hold a large inventory of bird/bat acoustic recording equipment. We have undertaken extensive surveys deploying and analysing AnaBats, Wildlife Acoustics SongMeters, AudioMoths, Titley Chorus and more. 

We analyse data using Wildlife Acoustics Kaleidoscope, AviaNZ, SoundID and more.

Our Principal Ecologist, Kurtis Lindsay, is a world-renowned Ornithologist with multiple publications and experience in bird identification dating back to 1998. 

Kurtis is a Forensic Ornithologist and has acted as Expert Witness  to the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, and provided Independent Expert services to the Australian Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).

When submitting State Significant Development (SSD) applications for renewable energy projects, particular Wind Turbine / Wind Farm projects in all states and territories of Australia, the state/territory and/or Commonwealth regulator will likely request that you assess and monitor the impacts of your project upon bird and bat fauna, particularly threatened species.

Land Eco Consulting can assist clients with their Wind Energy Projects across all of the New South Wales Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) including:

• Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone
• New England Renewable Energy Zone
• South West Renewable Energy Zone
• Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone
• Illawarra Renewable Energy Zone

Land Eco Consulting are familiar with the survey requirements and guidelines for all Australian bat and avifauna/bird species that are listed threatened or protected under the state legislation or the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). 

Here are just a few of the bird species we have experience in surveying for impact assessment or compliance/monitoring:

Birds of Prey / Raptors

• Little Eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides)
• Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura)
• Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
• Black-breasted Buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon)
• Black Falcon (Falco subniger)
• Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos)
• White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
• Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus)
• Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis)
• Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)

Owls

• Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)
• Barking Owl (Ninox connivens)
• Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae)

Migratory Wader Birds and Shorebirds

• Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)
• Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
• Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
• Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
• Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis)
• Australian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus)
• Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
• Sooty Oystercatcher ( Haematopus longirostris)
• Oriental Plover (Charadrius veredus)
• Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus)
• Greater Sand Plover (Charadrius leschenaultii)
• Bush Stone Curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
• Australian Bustard (Ardeotis australis) 
• Brolga (Grus rubicunda)
• Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus)

Parrots and Honeyeaters

• Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii)
• Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor)
• Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami)
• Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalus fimbriatus)
• Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster)
• Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
• Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta(

Here are just a few of the bat species we have experience in surveying for impact assessment or compliance/monitoring:

Bats

• Large Bent-wing Bat (Miniopterus orianae oceanensis)
• Little Bent-wing Bat (Miniopterus autralis)
• Large-eared Pied Bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri)
• Little Pied Bat (Chalinolobus picatus)
• Hoary Wattled Bat ( Chalinolobus nigrogriseus)
• Corben's Long-eared Bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)
• Eastern Cave Bat (Vespadelus troughtoni)
• Southern Myotis (Myotis macropus)
• Eastern False Pipistrelle (Falsistrellis tasmaniensis)
• Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat (Mormopterus norfolkensis)
• Bristle-faced Free-tailed Bat (Mormopterus eleryi)
• Great Broad-nosed Bat ( Scoteanax rueppellii)
• Yellow-bellied Sheath-tail Bat (Saccolaimus flaviventris)
• Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)

If you would like advice regarding fauna surveys, bat surveys, bird surveys or raptor surveys for your next project anywhere in Australia, contact the experts at Land Eco Consulting.

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