Books

• Olsen, Penny, ed. (1993). Australian raptor studies. Australasian Raptor Association Conference (Canberra, 1989). Moonee Ponds, Vic.: Australasian Raptor Association, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
• — (1995). Australian birds of prey : the biology and ecology of raptors. Sydney: UNSW Press.
• — (2001). Feather and brush : two centuries of Australian bird art. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.
• Olsen, Penny. (2005). Wedge-tailed Eagle. Australian Natural History Series. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
• Olsen, Penny (2007). Glimpses of paradise : the quest for the Beautiful Parakeet. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
• Olsen, Penny. (2010). Upside Down World: Early European Impressions of Australia's Curious Animals, National Library of Australia: Canberra.
• Olsen, Penny. (adapted). (2010). The Best Nest, National Library of Australia: Canberra. ISBN 978-0-642-27704-6 (pbk)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Olsen, Penny. (2012). Our Nest is Best!, National Library of Australia: Canberra. ISBN 978-0-642-27737-4 (hbk)^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• Olsen, Penny. (2013). Have You Seen My Egg?, National Library of Australia: Canberra. ISBN 978-0-642-27788-6 (pbk)^{[lower-alpha 3]}
• — (2014). An eye for nature : the life and art of William T. Cooper. Canberra: NLA Publishing.
• — (2015). Louisa Atkinson's nature notes.

Articles

• Olsen, Penny (March 2009). "The independent ornithologist". The National Library Magazine. 1 (1). National Library of Australia: 18–20.^{[lower-alpha 4]}
• — (December 2010). "Nature seems determined to have a bit of a play". The National Library Magazine. 2 (4). National Library of Australia: 2–7.
• — (March 2015). "Of moths and King-Parrots : on the trail of a colonial natural history artist". The National Library of Australia Magazine. 7 (1): 24–27.
• — (June 2015). "Sidney William Jackson : collector and tree-climber" (PDF). The National Library of Australia Magazine. 7 (2): 12–15. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
• — (December 2015). "Farewell William Thomas Cooper, 1934–2015". The National Library of Australia Magazine. 7 (4): 24–27.

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