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!

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

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

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

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

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)