Princeton University Press. Trinidad and Tobago are both wonderful places to spend time, birding and otherwise. My wife and I prefer to go on these trips unguided, do the necessary research, and find birds on our own. Probably because of this habit, we always seem to leave a few species behind, and the omission of those species on our trip lists provides a great excuse for returning to our favorite birding places. We find the warnings about crime in Trinidad to be largely rubbish, and have never taken more precautions while birding there than we do here in the states.
Common sense works well.
I'll not repeat here what you've already heard about Asa Wright in the Northern Range of Trinidad. It's a fabulous place, and you owe yourselves the luxury of birding there. Not to be missed on one of their outings, is sitting in a rowboat, sipping rum punches and eating cookies while hundreds of scarlet ibises float into their night roosts. For us, who are used to roughing it on birding trips, it was a decadent pleasure we owed ourselves, and you do too. Their naturalists are amazingly well-trained and are very affable folks to be with in the field.