HANZAB
March 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm (Birds, General)
Today I became the proud owner of a shiny new set of books called the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds or HANZAB for short. It has long been a dream of mine to own the 7 volume set. There are actually 9 books in the set because 2 of the volumes are divided into 2 parts. I feel like I should be wearing cotton gloves whenever I open one of them!
HANZAB is the definitive work on birds of the Australasian region. There are 9000 pages describing 952 species which is approximately 10% of all the world’s birds. The books are now out of print and will not be re-printed, so it was lucky that I ordered them just before that announcement was made. As it was, the bookseller reduced the price to a lower price AFTER I had ordered them and followed up with an email reducing the price for me too.
