Missing Qld toddler back with family

A two-year-old girl missing for four hours in bushland in southeast Queensland is back with her family, after being found by crew on board a rescue helicopter.

The girl, named by the Nine Network as Dixie Hornbuckle, was spotted with her two dogs about one kilometre from where she was last seen.

Police said she was found after one of the dogs ran out of the bush.

The toddler vanished from a home at Pine Mountain, near Ipswich, about 11am on Thursday.

Her disappearance sparked a massive air and ground search, with police scouring bushland on foot, trail bikes and quad bikes.

The girl's ordeal was over when she was spotted by the RACQ CareFlight Rescue around 3pm.

Television footage showed the moment she was reunited with her uncle, who later carried her home.

"She just - she smiled when she saw me," he told Nine.

"She was still scared of the chopper but apart from that - she was just scared of the cops and glad to see someone she knew."