BirdsCaribbean is excited to finally announce all of our Global Big Day 2021 photography winners and share some of the many awesome photos that were taken on Global Big Day! We already reported on the team and individual stats and awards – click here if you missed the results from our record-breaking day!

Thanks to everyone that participated, especially our team leaders and generous donors, Global Big Day 2021 was a huge success. We had a record number of teams participating (15). And thanks to a game-changing challenge grant from a member of the President’s Perch team, we were able to raised close to $20,000 for our new Caribean Motus Collaboration – so amazing! Congrats to all the winners – enjoy the photos and gallery below!!!

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Best Bird Photo:  Rafy Rodriguez – Puerto Rican Tody

Second Best Bird Photo: Roberto Jovel — Cuban Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cuba

Third Best Bird Photo: Jerome Foster — Little Blue Heron, immature (molting), St. Lucia

Best Shorebird:  Julian Moore — Ruddy Turnstone, Barbados

Youngest GBDer:  (1) Joanne Gaymes – Maeson  Gaymes in St. Vincent; (2) Anneke Mace – Holly Mace birding in New Zealand

Best Smiles:  Andrew Dobson and teammates Patricia Zurita and Katrina-Dobson – UK

Best Selfie:  Maikel Cañizares – The Bee Hummers Cuban Dream team, Cuba

Most Beautiful Landscape:  Rafy Rodriguez

Urban Birds: Jerome Foster – Gray Kingbird on nest, St. Lucia

Life in the Wild:  (1) Jerome Foster – American Kestrels mating, St. Lucia; (2) John Kricher – Mute Swan parent banishing Canada Goose; (3) Joanne Gaymes – Black-faced Grassquit female collecting nesting material, St. Vincent

Sweetest Fluffiest Birds:  (1) John Kricher – Mute Swan cygnets; (2) Rafy Rodriguez – Green Heron immature

Enjoy this gallery of bird, people and scenery photos taken on Global Big Day by various team members in the Caribbean, US, UK, Costa Rica, Panama, Netherlands, and more!

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Laughing Gull, St. Simon Island, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Chuck Wills Widow – migrant in Costa-Rica (Holly Garrod)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Jeff Gerbracht selfie, yes, it’s snowing again for GBD in Ithaca, NY.

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Glenroy Gaymes birding with son Maeson in the St Vincent Botanical Gardens (Joanne Gaymes)

Yellow Warbler (golden) in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron juvenile in Canash, St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Scaly-naped Pigeon in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Alligator – Altamaha Wildlife Management Area, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Semi-palmated Plovers in St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Beny Wilson with GBD birding group, including Rick Morales and Ivan Skildsen (Minister of Tourism) in Panama (Beny Wilson)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Yellow-Crowed Night-Heron in flight (Jerome Foster)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Double-crested and Neotropic Cormorants, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (John Thomlinson)

Holly Garrod and Josh-Covill, birding in Costa Rica, winners of most birds seen for GBD 2021!

Cattle Egret portrait, St. Lucia (Jerome-Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Wild Turkey Jaywalking on Plum-Island, Massachusetts (Lisa-Sorenson)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Phyllis Pollack’s son and grandson at Berkeley Marina (Phyllis-Pollack)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados. (Photo by Julian Moore)

Laughing Gulls and Maeson Gaymes in St Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Spring birding at hotspot, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA, (Lisa Sorenson)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Gray Kingbirds (Petcharies) – the 4 sentinels (Wendy Lee)

Red-billed Streamertail – endemic in Jamaica. (Photo by Claude Fletcher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Birders with Beny Wilson at Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Beny Wilson)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)