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101 Birds of Tobago’s Rainforest is a tribute to the oldest protected rainforest in the Western Hemisphere. This publication highlights species tied, in different ways, to the Main Ridge Forest Reserve. As Tobago’s ecological backbone, the forest feeds surrounding habitats, supporting life beyond its boundaries. The images, paired with brief notes, trace those connections, reflecting on a system where everything begins in the forest. Published to mark the reserve’s 250th anniversary on 13 April 2026, this collection is a hopeful nod to a forest we trust will continue to flourish.

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"This is far more than a field guide. It is filled with excellent photographs by the author and conveys his passion for birding and conservation. This is an invaluable resource for the beginner as well as the experienced birder. Even if you are not headed to these islands, it will inspire you." - Finn

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A tribute to a truly magical place. Read more about this on my blog #birding #birdwatching #birders #mainridgeforestreserve #tobago

The curious thing about frauds is they continually brag, ultimately slitting their own throats while pointing quivering fingers at the room spinning before them.
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Find what makes you think; ignore that, and you’ll find what makes you feel.
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I often ruminate about the concept of home, what is it that makes people so attached to a particular point in space, and if there is a temporal caveat wrapped up in there somewhere. Is home a building, a neighborhood, a country, and is it the same now as it was then? For me, I’ve been a pariah for so long that there is no place – or time – that occupies that centre of longing. And I love that. Everywhere is home.
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Worship the dead and you will never live.
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Anyone who claims that magic doesn’t exist has never looked at a sunset.
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Many more whimsical brushes of palm fronds playing with shadow puppets beyond the edges of the frame you see here. On my website, images are presented as I originally intended. With space. Best viewed on larger screens.
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Roadside Hawk
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St. Lucia Warbler
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Empty heads are the easiest to fill.
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Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
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Pandering to the whims of the machine so we could all be swished this way and that. Slop becomes easier to swallow.
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Curious creatures, we are, splitting and segmenting, blindly and feverishly, things that can never truly be separated. Bound by fundamental sinews and currents, the links themselves facilitate freedom. The more we strive to break them, the more entwined we become.
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Fruits of Karasabai
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Sun Parakeet
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African Rock Python (with gazelle kill)
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Imagine cutting ties with your closest neighbors and economic partners because the bigots on the other street told you to. Oh, how we never learn from history. Here we go. Lured by promises emptier than the heads of heads of state, souls sold long before soles stepped into office.
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They’re always talking; are we listening?
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It is in the slivers of silence, the gaps, the tunnels and the wormholes, where we find neatly folded in to the fabric of existence, not only answers but questions that further peel back the layers. These are the tough ones, the ones that break nails and leave wounds. But this is the only way for the lessons to stay with us as we continue to grow.
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White-throated Spadebill
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I have breathed spirit into you, and so, you carry the wind of the red dust and red wings.
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Common Hoopoe
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Attention is tangible.
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Greater Ani
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It often feels as though we’re the only ones broken by what’s happening around us. But we’re all broken, splintered, shattered - and that’s the design, the blueprint. When we’re whole, we’re powerful. When we heal ourselves, the healers will go out of business.
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Riddle and rhyme, the instruments of our time.
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Postcards to our future selves
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Freely sharing work to the public domain where anyone, anywhere can repurpose, alter, and use to train machines to make derivatives to further disadvantage the original creator of said work sounds absurd, doesn’t it?
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When we look at this, what do we see? The bird? The jungle? Light? Darkness? From one comes many, and so, many is one. Isn’t life infinitely grand?
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Guianan Cock-of-the-rock
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Inexperienced experts abound, shortcuts and flimsy façades run riot as the village has become the idiot.
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