Re: Tobago
Elliot Kirschbaum (ekirschb@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us)
Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:21:07 -0500
On 3/2/98 6:21 PM Joseph j Halpin said
>Does anyone have any knowledge/experience in this area to know whether a
>guide to the West Indies or South American Birds would be good enough and
>yet more useful for future trips to other areas? How about a bird
>checklist for this area? Any ideas where one can be picked up from the
>Internet? I checked several websites without any luck?
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Richard ffrench is the
best field guide for that area. That is probably the one you mentioned in
you post.
A guide which covers a larger area, but should include many (most), but
not all the birds of Tobago is A guide to the Birds of Venezuela by
Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee and Willian H. Phelps, Jr. It is even more
expensive than the ffrench guide, and the text will not be as helpful.
I think that the ffrench book also has a list of the birds of Tobago in
an appendix.
You can get a checklist of the birds of Trinidad and Tobago from the
American Birding Association (ABA) for $3.00 800-634-7736. Ask for item
#745.
Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD USA
mailto:ekirschb@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us