About the Author

Jerry Olsen has studied birds of prey for 44 years, in the United States, Canada and Australia and, with other researchers, published some 150 papers and articles and five books on raptors. He is a member of the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra, Australia. In 2012 his book Australian High Country Owls received a Whitley Award commendation for vertebrate natural history.