The list below shows the contents of HANZAB Volume 1 other than the list of orders, families, subfamilies and species which can be seen in the Contents document of each volume. For the current taxonomic listing see HANZAB Contents. Note that some of the linked documents, such as Aboriginal and Maori Names, list the species under the taxonomic structure of the HANZAB book. Indexes for each volume have not been included. Instead, the combined indexes are included in Volume 7 (see Combined Index to English Names and Combined Index to Scientific Names).

• Publication details, Contents and the RAOU (Vol. 1)
• Sponsors (Vol. 1)
• Introduction, Acknowledgements, Contributors and Reviewers, Abbreviations and Conventions (Vol. 1)
• Appendix I Vol. 1 Ectoparasites of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds
• Appendix II Vol. 1 Family Affiliations of Genera Mentioned in Sections on Food
• Appendix III Vol. 1 Aboriginal Names
• Appendix IV Vol. 1 Maori Names
• Appendix V Vol. 1 Foreign Names