myTobago – your questions, review and comment about Tobago

Hi can anyone out there help us? just 5 more days to go before we fly out to Tobago and we need a decent Bird field guide.
We have the Richard Ffrnch Birds of T&T that'll go with us, we were recommended the birds of Venezuela by Steven L Hilty which we now have ( it covers a lot of the bird in Tobago and a very good book it is to, only it weighs quite abit, you can't really take it out in the field with you ( bit like taking two house bricks into the rain forest ...well alright not quite! ) we also have the Birds of N America which also covers a few of the birds we are likely to see.
But is there a book around the size and weight of shall we say Lars Jonssons Birds of Europe or the National Geo Birds of N America if so are there any book shop we could purchase it whilst over there?
That may be a daft question of cause there are book shop! aren't there?

DaveJA

Hi Dave

Hopefully one of our birding experts out there will be able to answer your question from a more knowlegeable perspective. As far as I was able to identify during the research for our bird watching article, the books you mentioned are the only ones. There are two different editions of the Ffrench books. A new version of The Pocket Natural History edition was published earlier this year and is probably the best for field work. The best one is his 'Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago' published last November, but it's not exactly a field book.

Have a great time and please let us know how you get on.