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!

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)