Frequently Asked Questions

The HANZAB web site is accessed at https://hanzab.birdlife.org.au/ . Some of the introductory and information pages are accessible from the menu without logging in. However, to access the information about species, orders, families and subfamilies, you will need to log in with a BirdLife account.

NOTE: You do not need to be a member of Birdlife Australia to have an account to access HANZAB.

For members of BirdLife Australia, you probably already have a Birdlife Australia account (see instructions below if you have forgotten your password or are unsure if you have a Birdlife account). Otherwise, you will need to setup an account.

Log in or create a new account

Go to the HANZAB web site.

Click on  ‘Log in’ in the menu.

You can Log in, or Create a new account:

If you are unsure if you have a BirdLife account, or if you have forgotten your password, please click ‘Forgot your password?’ underneath the ‘Log in’ button, on the left. Instructions on resetting your password will be sent to the email address you entered. Remember to also look in your spam folder for the email.

If you didn’t receive an email, BirdLife may not have an account set up for you, even if you have supported us in the past. Setting up an account is simple, go Back to login and click Create a New Account.

If you can’t log in, or create a new account, send an email to support@birdlife.org.au.

Create a new BirdLife Australia account

Click on ‘Create a new account’, located under the ‘Log in’ button, on the right.

Enter your first name, last name, and email and press Sign Up.

A screen will appear asking you to enter a verification code. This will have been sent to the email address you entered on the screen before.
• Check your email. The code will be in an email with the subject line “Verify your new account”
• The six-digit code will be at the bottom of the email. Ensure you have checked your spam and other folders if you cannot see it.
• Enter the six-digit code in the screen where you were asked to enter a verification code, and click ‘Verify‘.

You will then be asked to create a password.
• Instructions on creating a valid password are shown on the screen.

When you have set your password, you should stay logged in and have access to all HANZAB pages.

There are a two main ways to find information:

• using search box (see instructions below)
• from the Contents page (link on the menu at the top of the page)

The search box is located near the top of the screen. As text is entered in this box, a list of pages (species, subfamily, family, order or supporting text) with the search text in the title or scientific name will be shown below the search box. For example, entering ‘babbler’ in the search box will return a list below the search box with the name of each species and two families that have the word in the title (see first image below). Clicking on any of these will take you to the page.

The last item in the list is “All items containing babbler…”. Clicking on this takes you to a page showing all pages containing the word babbler anywhere within them (see second image below). This page has two search boxes: the one at the top of the screen (used as described above) and one below the line with a blue search button. This second search box is used to search for all pages containing the text anywhere on the page.  The search for ‘babbler’ returns 7 screens of pages which include the word ‘babbler’. The second search box can be used to refine your search or enter new searches for all pages containing the search text. If ‘babbler’ was replaced with ‘quoll’ and the search button pressed, only pages containing this text would be shown. If you are looking for search terms which include spaces (eg. “smoky mouse”, ”Satin Bowerbird”) add the quotes otherwise the list returned will include documents which include both words, whether together or not.

Opening the pages in the list does not take you to the search text. To find the text in the page, use the ‘find in page’ functionality in your browser (Ctrl+F for Windows or Command-F for Apple).

Note that finding all pages may require a number of searches. In some cases words may be abbreviated or not, eg MIA for Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, P. halli for Potatostomus halli. In this case search for both the abbreviation and the full text (in quotes). Searching for ‘MIA or ‘Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area”’ as one search does not return documents containing either term.

Also note that some searches will return pages where the text cannot be found on the page. In these cases the text will be in the code behind the page. Search currently includes the code behind the page to support the ongoing development work.

HANZAB is being continually updated, with releases not at regular intervals yet.

The site-wide changes are described in Release Notes.

Within each page, changes are included in the Content Updates section. This section only appears if there are changes. If there are changes, ‘Content Update’, with the release number of the latest update in brackets, is shown above title

Some species has been revised to bring the text up to date. This revision will be noted in the Content Updates and by the word ‘Revised’, with the release date in brackets, appearing above the title.

See Treatment and Presentation.

The current taxonomy is found on the HANZAB Contents page. It can also be accessed by using the HANZAB search by entering ‘Taxonomy’ and selecting ‘HANZAB Taxonomy’.

While the pages about birds can be accessed directly via the search box (see Find information above), there are a couple of ways that the information can accessed in taxonomic order:

• using the links in the taxonomy
• using the links under the menu at the top of the species, subfamilies, families and orders pages
• using the links in the box on the subfamilies, families and orders pages

At the top of the species page there are links to the next species, previous species, order, family and, if included, subfamily. For example, at the top of the Southern Cassowary page there are links the links below.

STRUTHIONIFORMES › Casuariidae ◄◄ Ostrich | Emu ►

The Ostrich link has two left arrows to indicate that it is the previous species and that it is in a different family to the Southern Cassowary.

The pages for subfamilies, families and orders include similar links. For example, the Casuariidae family has the links for order STRUTHIONIFORMES, the previous family Struthionidae and the next family Apterygidae.

STRUTHIONIFORMES ◄ Struthionidae | Apterygidae ►►

On the Casuariidae page there are links to the species within the family in the box at the top of the page.

Taxonomic order is the default for the list but this can be changed to alphabetical using the selector at the at the bottom of the box.

To find the appendices from the HANZAB books, use the search: type ‘Appendix’ in the search box. Alternate methods are:

• to use the links under Bird related information on the HANZAB contents page
• to search for ‘HANZAB book structure’ and go that page to see the full list by volume.