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Dr Penelope Diane Olsen is an Australian ornithologist and author. She has worked with CSIRO as an experimental officer and an Honorary Research Associate as well as being an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. She is also internationally recognised as an expert on raptors and was involved in the conservation work on Norfolk Island for the Norfolk Island Boobook. She was President of the Australian Raptor Association 1984 – 1989. In 1997 she was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union’s D.L Serventy Medal for excellence in published work on birds in the Australian region.
Since 2003 she has been editor of Birds Australia’s magazine Wingspan.
Published by National Library Australia, 2013, Softcover, 31 pages.