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!

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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