Volume two of the acclaimed HANZAB
ornithological project
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds
Volume 2: Raptors to Lapwings
Edited by Stephen Marchant and P. J. Higgins
Colour illustrations by J. N. Davies
Price: £190.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-553069-8
Publication date: 31 March 1994
1048 pages, 70 color, 150 b&w plates, 265x190 mm
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| Reviews |
| - ''excellent book ... one of the most exciting and significant projects in Australian ornithology today and for some time to come ... It provides an up-to-date comprehensive and accurate synthesis of our knowledge of all the birds that occur in the region and continues the tradition of authoritative and exciting publications on Australian birds ... It will have an enormous impact on the future
direction of research and the conservation of Australian and Antarctic birds, as much by showing what we do not know as by summarizing what we do. These illustrations are in a class by themselves and complement the scholarly text ... all institutional libraries should have a copy.'
Charles E. Keller, Indiana Audubon Quarterly' -
- 'an essential reference for every serious ornithologist working in the region ... magnificently finished production' - Stephen Garnett, The Ibis 137:127 1995
- 'one can only be impressed by the immense amount of carefully compiled and clearly presented data, as well as by the superb series of 68 colour plates ... it will remain a major reference work for many years, is almost too obvious to be worth repeating' - Bull. B.O.C. 1994 114 (4)
- 'I have nothing but praise for the general layout ... a delight to use ... I heartily commend this and the previous volume to everyone with an interest in Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds.' - Nick Dymond, British Birds 88:117
- 'Packed with information ... This book is superb. Of all the regional treatises, HANZAB is streets ahead and it is, of course, the reference book to the birds of the region. At #150, it is quite an investment, but, if your interest in this fascinating faunal region is deep enough, then so will be your wallet!' - Hugh Harrop, Birding World
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| Description | | - The second volume of the most exciting and authoritative ornithological project of Australasia
- Covers 119 species
- Over 60 lavish colour illustrations by Jeff Davies
- Completely up-to-date and rigorously scientific information
| The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds
(HANZAB
) is one of the most exciting and significant projects in Australian ornithology today. Providing an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accurate synthesis of our knowledge of all the birds that occur in the region, HANZAB
continues a long tradition of authoritative and exciting ornithological publications, that began
with Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia
(1865) and was continued by Mathews, Buller and Oliver. It will have an enormous impact on the direction of future research and the conservation of Australasian and Antarctic birds, as much by showing what we don't know as by summarizing what we do.
Complementing the 196 species detailed in the highly acclaimed first volume, Volume Two
deals with 119 of the 900 birds recorded in Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica, the Antarctic and subantarctic islands, the external territories of Cocos-Keeling, Christmas, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands, and the islands and reefs of the Coral Sea. The information is presented in sections: Field Identification, Habitat, Distribution and Population, Movements, Food, Social
Organization, Social Behaviour, Voice, Breeding, and Plumages and related matters, and each account concludes with a full list of references. The accounts also include black-and-white illustrations of behavioural postures and plumage features, maps showing breeding and non-breeding distribution, sonagrams of calls and songs, diagrams of timing of breeding and moulting, and 70 colour plates,
specially painted for HANZAB by Jeff Davies.
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Readership: Professional and amateur ornithologists.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
Falconiformes
3.
Galliformes
4.
Turniciformes
5.
Gruiformes
6.
Charadriformes
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Stephen Marchant and
P. J. Higgins, both members of the Royal Australian Ornithological Union
Colour illustrations by J. N. Davies
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