After studying for a doctorate at the same university, he received his Ph.D. in 1989 with the dissertation Social and Environmental Constraints on Breeding by New Zealand Snipe Coenocorypha aucklandica.
Over a hundred expert authors and over 500 photographers have been involved in creating this digital encyclopedia, which records all of New Zealand's bird species (extant or extinct).
[10] Miskelly has written or contributed to numerous articles for the journal Notornis, including: In 2008 he edited the book Chatham Islands: Heritage and Conservation.
[11][12] In 2020, along with co-author Craig Symes, Miskelly edited a collection of papers entitled Lost Gold: Ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
[13][14] In 2021, Miskelly and his co-author Craig Symes won the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Whitley Award for the book Lost Gold: Ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands.