The birds of Groote Eylandt.

Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 2002.
Octavo, paperback, 187 pp. black and white photographs, colour photographs, maps.

This is one of very few Australian books tracing the history of ornithology of a region. All of the birds involved occur widely across the Top End, including the Darwin region.

Groote Eylandt is Australia's fourth largest island. Possibly the most pristine large island off the Northern Territory coast, Groote Eylandt is a refuge for birds and other wildlife from the introduced livestock and predators, and frequent fires, that have so altered the natural environment of the mainland.

The book describes the relative abundance, habitats, movements and regional distribution of each of the 228 bird species that have been reported on the Eylandt since 1920. All islands support fewer species than their mainland, so it is more interesting to know which species are absent, rather than present, and one section of the book deals with this in detail.