Handbook of the Birds of the World [HBW], Volume Twelve: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees

This is the fifth passerine volume and covers many Australian families written by Australian experts. Covers Picathartes, babblers, parrotbills, Australasian babblers, logrunners, jewel-babblers and allies, whistlers, Australasian robins, fairywrens, bristlebirds, thornbills, Australian chats, sittellas, Australasian treecreepers, and tits and chickadees. The series is to be completed in sixteen volumes and previous volumes are available. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation.

List of passerine families covered in this volume:
– Family Picathartidae (Picathartes)by Hazell Thompson
– Family Timaliidae (Babblers) by Nigel Collar & Craig Robson
– Family Paradoxornithidae (Parrotbills) by Craig Robson
– Family Pomatostomidae (Australasian Babblers) by Jamie Matthew
– Family Orthonychidae (Logrunners) by Walter Boles
– Family Eupetidae (Jewel-babblers and allies) by Walter Boles
– Family Pachycephalidae (Whistlers) by Walter Boles
– Family Petroicidae (Australasian Robins) by Walter Boles
– Family Maluridae (Fairywrens) by Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell
– Family Dasyornithidae (Bristlebirds) by Phil Gregory
– Family Acanthizidae (Thornbills) by Phil Gregory
– Family Epthianuridae (Australian Chats) by Jamie Matthew
– Family Neosittidae (Sittellas) by Richard Noske
– Family Climacteridae (Australasian Treecreepers) by Richard Noske
– Family Paridae (Tits and Chickadees) by Andrew Gosler & Peter Clement