Fauna Spotter Catchers
Wildlife checks, animal handling and support alongside your clearing crew.
Fauna Spotter Catchers in Middlemount, QLD.
Fauna Spotter Catchers and Koala Spotters support clearing works around Middlemount in the Isaac Council area. Surrounding bushland and nearby coal mines shape local work, including proposed creek and water supply pipeline diversions. Share your Middlemount site, dates and approval conditions so we can confirm scope and availability.
Services in Middlemount
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 Middlemount
The 2011 Middlemount Coal Project Stage 2 proposal was an open-cut mine expansion about 6 km southwest of town. It included proposed diversions of Roper Creek and Thirteen Mile Gully, and a partial diversion of the Saraji water supply pipeline. The assessment identified permanent habitat and floodplain loss associated with the creek diversions.
- Open-cut mine expansion
- Roper Creek diversion
- Thirteen Mile Gully diversion
- Saraji pipeline diversion
Wildlife and habitat around Middlemount
Middlemount sits within about 513 square kilometres of bushland, ringed by coal mines including Foxleigh, German Creek and Grasstree. Approval documents for the nearby mines name koalas, greater gliders, squatter pigeons and ornamental snakes as matters to manage, and Middlemount Coal's offsets cover ornamental snake habitat, squatter pigeon habitat and the endangered brigalow ecological community. Ornamental snakes use gilgai depressions on cracking clay, often with brigalow, so these features are worth flagging before clearing.
Clearing rules for Middlemount
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, Isaac Local Government Area 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: Middlemount.
Mapped potential, not confirmed sightings. Select a count to explore species names and profiles.
50 km around Middlemount. Library snapshot: 30 Oct 2026.
Total significant species: 55
Queensland conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 2
- Endangered: 11
- Vulnerable: 10
- Near threatened: 0
National (EPBC) conservation categories
- Critically endangered: 2
- Endangered: 11
- Vulnerable: 12
- Migratory: 15
- Colonial breeders: 22
- QLD special least concern: 12
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 Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
- Australian Painted-Snipe (Rostratula australis)
- Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
- Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus)
- Black-faced Monarch (Monarcha melanopsis)
- Black-throated Finch (Poephila cincta)
- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Collared Delma (Delma torquata)
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
- Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata)
- Dunmall's Snake (Furina dunmalli)
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
- Fairy Martin (Petrochelidon ariel)
- Fitzroy River Turtle (Rheodytes leukops)
- Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)
- Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas)
- Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Greater Glider (Petauroides volans)
- Greater Robust Fine-lined Slider (Lerista allanae)
- Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos)
- Grey Snake (Hemiaspis damelii)
- Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
- Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
- Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
- Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- Little Pied Bat (Chalinolobus picatus)
- Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
- Little Red Flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus)
- Medium Egret (Ardea intermedia)
- Nankeen Night-Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
- Northern Quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
- Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus)
- Ornamental Snake (Denisonia maculata)
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
- Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
- Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
- Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
- Satin Flycatcher (Myiagra cyanoleuca)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
- Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
- Squatter Pigeon (Geophaps scripta)
- Star Finch (Neochmia ruficauda)
- Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
- Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida)
- White-throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula)
- Yakka Skink (Egernia rugosa)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)
Area, sources and limitations
A 50 km circle centred on Middlemount, 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):
- Middlemount (-22.81226, 148.69926)
Working in Middlemount
Bowen Basin coal mine and access-road 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
Which threatened species come up on mine clearing near Middlemount?
Approval documents for mines around Middlemount name koalas, greater gliders, squatter pigeons and ornamental snakes, along with the endangered brigalow ecological community. Gilgai on cracking clay is the key ornamental snake habitat to look for. The approval conditions for your site decide the final scope.
Do your Middlemount 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.