March 2025

We have added a new tab called “Multimedia” where you can find links to photos and audio of bird species, where available. We will keep adding these links to cover as many species as we can.

We are updating some species profiles at the moment, like Albert’s Lyrebird, which is very exciting. Keep an eye out for new releases throughout the year.

As always, we are constantly adding the original HANZAB images to each profile page. One day we will have all of them up, and we might just have some champagne to celebrate that milestone.

23 Nov 2023

BirdLife Australia’s biggest publishing milestone is now online!

We will be doing an official launch of HANZAB at the Australian Ornithological Conference in Brisbane on the 27-30 November 2023. 

You can now view the original text from the HANZAB publications. While a login is required, access is free. The login will be the same as the one you use for other BirdLife platforms (e.g. Birdata). 

While we are still in the process of adding all the colour images from the original publications, we have updated the taxonomy and conservation status. Updated distribution maps have also been added for some species. More information can be found in About HANZAB.