[2] Her thesis, titled "Behavioural strategies of a silvereye population, (Zosterops lateralis chlorocephala Campbell and White), in relation to food resources, on a coral cay island", was published by the Royal Australian Ornithologists Union in 1982.
[3] In 2010 Catterall won the D. L. Serventy Medal in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to publication in the science of ornithology in the Australasian region".
[4] At the time of her award she was an associate professor at Griffith University[5] and had "served on 13 advisory bodies and written 33 consultancy reports for local, state and commonwealth governments, community groups and private industry".
[4] Catterall was president of the Ecological Society of Australia in the year of its 50th anniversary and was interviewed to celebrate that milestone.
[4] Her ornithological research has included studies of aggression between species such as Manorina melanocephala (noisy miners) as well as of birds spreading the seeds of fruits.