A long-term goal of ARCC Inc. has been to collate and publish a comprehensive, yet accessible text encompassing all aspects of raptor rehabilitation, including history, rehabilitation and veterinary techniques, natural and captive behaviours, and post-release ecology. This project is currently underway.

Initially, the basis of the text grew out of Peg McDonald’s Churchill Fellowship report, but unlike many currently available books, our intention is not just to provide an instructional "how-to", but to also cover the basic evolutionary, social and natural history of our raptor species so readers can gain a better understanding of the 'whys' behind the 'whats' of Australian raptor rehabilitation and conservation.

To tell the story of our Australian birds of prey, from prehistory, through the initial interactions with our First Nations people, attitudes of European colonists through to today’s ecological challenges, we have recruited a group of esteemed contributors, all experts in their fields.

Dr Charlie Carter, veterinarian

Dr Stephen Debus, ornithologist

Mark Kelly, artist and photographer

Peg McDonald OAM CF, raptor rehabilitator and advocate

Dr Ellen Rasidi, avian veterinarian

Dr Emily Willoughby, paleoartist

Matt Wright, photographer and wildlife guide

Jasmine Zeleny, photographer and ecologist

We have also been privileged to have been allowed to include previously unpublished work by the late Jerry Olsen, ornithologist and Associate Professor at the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra.