Fauna Spotter Catchers
Wildlife checks, animal handling and support alongside your clearing crew.
Fauna Spotter Catchers in Charleville, QLD.
Fauna Spotter Catchers and Koala Spotters support clearing works around Charleville in Murweh Shire. Charleville is a hub for cattle and sheep grazing, and works may involve mulga woodland, Warrego River banks and wetlands beside the Mitchell and Warrego Highways. Share your Charleville site, dates and approval conditions so we can confirm scope and availability.
Services in Charleville
Choose the support your job needs. Specialist surveys are arranged around the site, target species and dates.
Koala Spotters
Dedicated koala searches and monitoring for works in koala habitat.
Ecology & pre-clearance surveys
Fauna and habitat checks before work starts, with findings recorded for your project.
Fauna management plans
Site-specific plans setting out how wildlife will be managed during the works.
Thermal drone surveys
Thermal imaging to help locate wildlife and guide follow-up checks.
By arrangement
Conservation detection dogs
Targeted searches using trained dog-and-handler teams.
By arrangement
Typical works around Charleville
Work may include grazing property vegetation clearing, roadside clearing on the Mitchell and Warrego Highways, and clearing along riverbanks, drainage channels and wetland edges.
- Grazing property vegetation clearing
- Highway roadside vegetation clearing
- Warrego riverbank vegetation clearing
- Wetland edge vegetation clearing
Wildlife and habitat around Charleville
Riverine wetlands, permanent waterholes and mulga woodland provide habitat around Charleville. The area includes habitat for bilbies, red and grey kangaroos and emus. Waterholes south of town also provide habitat for aquatic fauna and waterbirds.
Clearing rules for Charleville
In Queensland, clearing remnant and regrowth native vegetation is regulated under the Vegetation Management Act 1999. Separately, tampering with a breeding place that a protected animal is using to incubate or rear young, such as an occupied hollow or nest, needs an approved species management program.
Under the Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2017, Shire of Murweh is in koala district C. The staged, sequential clearing conditions apply only in districts A and B, but in any area determined as a koala habitat area, clearing koala habitat trees with a trunk over 10 cm in diameter must be done with a koala spotter present.
We check the approval conditions for your site before work starts and plan the spotter role around them.
Significant species: Charleville.
Mapped potential, not confirmed sightings. Select a count to explore species names and profiles.
50 km around Charleville. Library snapshot: 30 Oct 2026.
Total significant species: 40
Queensland conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 1
- Endangered: 4
- Vulnerable: 11
- Near threatened: 0
National (EPBC) conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 1
- Endangered: 6
- Vulnerable: 12
- Migratory: 7
- Colonial breeders: 17
- QLD special least concern: 5
Each species counts once in the total. Additional groups can overlap with one another and the conservation categories.
Mapped potential, not confirmed sightings. This is not a site survey or a complete wildlife inventory.
Species names and profiles
- Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
- Australian Painted-Snipe (Rostratula australis)
- Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
- Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus)
- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Collared Delma (Delma torquata)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
- Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata)
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
- Fairy Martin (Petrochelidon ariel)
- Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Greater Glider (Petauroides volans)
- Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos)
- Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
- Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
- Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)
- Little Broad-nosed Bat (Scotorepens greyii)
- Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
- Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii)
- Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
- Pink Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri)
- Plains Death Adder (Acanthophis hawkei)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
- Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
- Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
- Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
- Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus)
- Southeastern Long-eared Bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)
- Southern Whiteface (Aphelocephala leucopsis)
- Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
- Tree Martin (Petrochelidon nigricans)
- Yakka Skink (Egernia rugosa)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)
- Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus)
Area, sources and limitations
A 50 km circle centred on Charleville, not a council boundary. It includes nearby areas and may extend across state boundaries or coastal waters.
Generated from Fauna Spotters significant-species screening library on 30 Oct 2026. Underlying source dates vary. Counts use mapped ranges and generalised distribution estimates, not a live ALA or WildNet records search. Marine-only profiles are excluded; coastal species may be included.
State and national conservation categories are shown separately. Priority and other conservation categories are not necessarily threatened listings. The total includes all significant fauna in the screening areas, including any adjacent jurisdictions. Listings may apply to only part of an area. Colonial breeding is an ecological grouping, not a threat status. Check individual profiles for listing details and source references.
- DCCEEW species distribution models (August 2026)
- Indicative estimate from generalised ALA occurrence locations
- Short-beaked Echidna: documented nationwide distribution
- Echidnas: mainland, Tasmania and named island distribution
Screening centres, using GeoNames (CC BY 4.0):
- Charleville (-26.40542, 146.24274)
Working in Charleville
South West Queensland grazing, road and gas-exploration clearing.
Where’s your next job?
Enter your site, dates and crew needs for an itemised quote. We’ll confirm availability before booking.
- Site address or nearest town
- Start date and number of days
- Crew and equipment needed
Licensed in Queensland
We hold the Rehabilitation permit (spotter catcher) and can supply licensed personnel across Queensland. The licence is issued by the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (DETSI) under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. Copies of licences, insurance and induction records are supplied with every quote.
Any additional permissions and approval conditions are checked for the job.
Frequently asked questions
What habitat should we check before clearing near Charleville?
Check whether the work area includes mulga woodland, Warrego River banks, drainage channels or wetlands, which provide local habitat. Nearby habitat supports bilbies, kangaroos and emus, and your site approvals set out what is required.
Do your Charleville crews hold koala-handling qualifications?
Yes. We supply dedicated Koala Spotters for projects inside mapped QLD koala habitat, in line with state koala conservation requirements.
Can you start at short notice?
Send the site, dates, shifts and approval conditions. We will check crew availability and any permissions before confirming a start.
What permissions apply in Queensland?
We hold the Rehabilitation permit (spotter catcher) and can supply licensed personnel across Queensland. The licence is issued by the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (DETSI) under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. Copies of licences, insurance and induction records are supplied with every quote. Tampering with an animal breeding place needs an approved Species Management Program, and clearing in mapped koala habitat needs a dedicated Koala Spotter under the Koala Conservation Plan.
Can you prepare a fauna management plan?
Yes. Share the clearing footprint, relevant approvals and any existing surveys. We will scope the plan and reporting requirements for your project.