Fauna Spotter Catchers
Wildlife checks, animal handling and support alongside your clearing crew.
Fauna Spotter Catchers in Julia Creek, QLD.
Fauna Spotters supplies licensed Fauna Spotter Catchers and ecologists to Julia Creek vanadium projects, Flinders Highway works and Mitchell grass downs clearing. Get an instant online quote in under two minutes, with no waiting on emailed proposals. Share your Julia Creek site, dates and approval conditions so we can confirm scope and availability.
Services in Julia Creek
Choose the support your job needs. Specialist surveys are arranged around the site, target species and dates.
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
Significant species: Julia Creek.
Mapped potential, not confirmed sightings. Select a count to explore species names and profiles.
50 km around Julia Creek. Library snapshot: 30 Oct 2026.
Total significant species: 31
Queensland conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 1
- Endangered: 6
- Vulnerable: 7
- Near threatened: 0
National (EPBC) conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 1
- Endangered: 5
- Vulnerable: 8
- Migratory: 10
- Colonial breeders: 9
- QLD special least concern: 8
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 Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae)
- Australian Painted-Snipe (Rostratula australis)
- Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
- Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)
- Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
- Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos)
- Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
- Julia Creek Dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi)
- Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
- Little Broad-nosed Bat (Scotorepens greyii)
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- Medium Egret (Ardea intermedia)
- Mertens' Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi)
- Nankeen Night-Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
- Oriental Plover (Charadrius veredus)
- Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)
- Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Plains Death Adder (Acanthophis hawkei)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
- Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
- Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
- Star Finch (Neochmia ruficauda)
Area, sources and limitations
A 50 km circle centred on Julia Creek, 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):
- Julia Creek (-20.65577, 141.74129)
Working in Julia Creek
Julia Creek vanadium projects, Flinders Highway works and Mitchell grass downs clearing.
The McKinlay Shire around Julia Creek is home to a group of vanadium projects, the Cannington mine to the south, the Flinders Highway and the Mount Isa rail line, and the CopperString 2032 corridor. Much of this country is Mitchell grass downs.
The Mitchell grass downs are habitat for the Julia Creek dunnart, a small carnivorous marsupial listed as Vulnerable nationally and Endangered in Queensland. Our spotter catchers know how to search cracking clay soils and ground cover for dunnarts and other small fauna before and during clearing, and how to record and relocate animals in line with approval conditions.
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
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.