Highfields Falls is definitely one of the best birding spots in the Toowoomba region.
In fact we were so enamored of the birds there, that apart from that video of the Grey fantail whistling, we took no other photos or videos of the day!
Suffice to say it was an enjoyable morning – and here’s the combined bird list for the three sites we surveyed – 31 species in total.
| Australian King-Parrot | Alisterus scapularis |
| Australian Magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen |
| Brown Goshawk/Collared Sparrowhawk spp | |
| Brown Thornbill | Acanthiza pusilla |
| Common Bronzewing | Phaps chalcoptera |
| Eastern Whipbird | Psophodes olivaceus |
| Eastern Yellow Robin | Eopsaltria australis |
| Fairy-wren spp | |
| Galah | Eolophus roseicapilla |
| Golden Whistler | Pachycephala pectoralis |
| Grey Fantail | Rhipidura fuliginosa |
| Grey Shrike-thrush | Colluricincla harmonica |
| Lewin’s Honeyeater | Meliphaga lewinii |
| Little Corella | Cacatua sanguinea |
| Little Lorikeet | Glossopsitta pusilla |
| Noisy Miner | Manorina melanocephala |
| Pale-headed Rosella | Platycercus adscitus |
| Pied Currawong | Strepera graculina |
| Powerful Owl | Ninox strenua |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus moluccanus |
| Scaly-breasted Lorikeet | Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus |
| Silvereye | Zosterops lateralis |
| Spangled Drongo | Dicrurus bracteatus |
| Spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus |
| Striated Pardalote | Pardalotus striatus |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita |
| Superb Fairy-wren | Malurus cyaneus |
| Varied Sittella | Daphoenositta chrysoptera |
| White-browed Scrubwren | Sericornis frontalis |
| White-naped Honeyeater | Melithreptus lunatus |
| Yellow-faced Honeyeater | Caligavis chrysops |