Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
CHORDATA
Class
AVES
Family
ACCIPITRIDAE
Genus
Accipiter
Species
fasciatus
Fauna
True
Mapping

Common name
Brown Goshawk
Alternate name
Australian Goshawk
Historical
False
QLD
NSW
EPBC
Marine
APC
ROTAP
Comment
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
True
Museum listing
True
Introduced
False
Qld Census
False
Regionally significant/rationale
True
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Common
Historical abundance
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Local distribution
Widespread in a variety of wooded and forested lands. Uncommon in open forest.
Known location
Tallebudgera Creek, Pine Ridge CP, Lamington NP, Guanaba, Coombabah, Currumbin, Jacobs Well, Canungr
Other locality
Uncommon in open forest, but probably more common than the few records suggest..
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
True
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
True
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Open forest, woodland.
Specific ecology
Habitat
Habitat comment
Mainly confined to large forest remnants and thus vulnerable to forest fragmentation.
Threats
Forest clearing and fragmentation.
Management
Community type
Migratory
False
Migration notes
Feeding status
Feeding strategy
Feeding substrate
Diet
Reproduction
Breeding season
Active period
Active season
Social group
Behaviour
Range
Biology
Growth form
Description
Taxonomy Comments
Species comments
Citations