David Stewart is Australia's most renowned wildlife sound recordist. Based on the far north coast of New South Wales David has spent the last 26 years travelling throughout Australia amassing the most extensive collection of natural bird, frog and mammal sounds in the country. David's digital collection is fully documented and has been lodged with the Australian Wildlife Sound Collection, CSIRO in Canberra as his contribution to Australia's National Heritage.
The British Library, National Sound Archive also houses a large part of the collection.
In 2008 David also provided his collection to the Macauley Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York State. In his home state David has assisted the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service by compiling ten field survey cassettes/CDs of rare fauna in NSW.